Western Sahara: Academics Address Biden
20 January 2021 President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Biden, We are writing to express our strong objections to President Trump’s decision to recognize Morocco’s illegal annexation of Western Sahara,
Published : 20 January 2021
Oil Industry Climate Denial since 1980s
Oil Industry’s Public Climate Denial Campaign Dates Back to at Least 1980, Nearly a Decade Earlier Than Previously Thought The American Petroleum Institute (API), the leading oil and gas industry trade group, publicly pushed misleading information on climate
Published : 15 January 2021
Vancouver: Cash to Homeless Changing Lives
Vancouver Gave People Experiencing Homelessness $5,800. It Changed Their Lives. VANVOUVER/XʷMƏΘKWƏY̓ƏM (MUSQUEAM)—It took me about a week to really sink in that this money was for me,” Ray recounts. “You know, $7,500 bucks is a fair
Published : 08 January 2021
Report: TNCs in Western Sahara
International companies investing illegally in Occupied Western Sahara For the second year in a row, the Center for Studies and Documentation, Ahmed Baba MISKE, wishes to shed light on the debate on the conflict between the
Published : 04 January 2021
Kashmiris Evicted amid anti-Muslim Crackdown
`I will burn myself to death`: Kashmir’s nomads evicted from homes amid anti-Muslim crackdown Activists believe evictions are happening so the Indian government can sell resource-rich territory to the private sector NEW DELHI—All that remains of Shareef-Ud-Din
Published : 31 December 2020
Oregon: Nez Perce Reclaim Ancestral Land
Nez Perce Tribe reclaims 148 acres of ancestral land in Eastern Oregon Purchase includes traditional fishing grounds and meeting place. The Nez Perce Tribe is reclaiming an ancestral village site in the Eastern Oregon town of Joseph
Published : 25 December 2020
South Asia: 63 mil Climate-change Migrants by 2050
Climate change could create 63 million migrants in South Asia by 2050 BARCELONA—The growing impacts of climate change have already pushed more than 18 million people to migrate within South Asian countries, but that could more
Published : 18 December 2020
Land Times No. 21
What better way to commemorate World Human Rights Day than with HIC’s Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN) Land Times? Today’s 21st issue reports on the role of civil society resisting the COVID-19 crisis and
Published : 12 December 2020
India: Farmers Protest, Support Political Prisoners
`It`s Time We Speak up For Each Other`: Farmers` Group Supports Political Prisoners "We are confronting a prime minister who is behaving like an exploitative king. All these activists and intellectuals have been arrested on false
Published : 11 December 2020
