Namibia: Court Evicts Endombo Residents
OMUTHIYA - About 20 tenants of Endombo compound in Tsumeb suffered another blow after a failed attempt to have the High Court declare an order of eviction instituted by the landlord null and void. The tenants
Published : 09 October 2020
Cameroon: Threatened to Extinction
Urbanisation and acculturation in Cameroon are eroding traditional conservation practices that helped maintain the equilibrium of the ecosystem. Armand Boui has a problem. The 57-year-old native of Mongonam in the Kadey Division of Cameroon – part
Published : 09 October 2020
Hungary: Five Romani Families Forcibly Evicted
Five Romani families were forced to leave their apartments on Tuesday morning (October 6), marking a definitive end to the moratorium on evictions during the pandemic. The eviction of five Romani families in the northeastern
Published : 07 October 2020
COVID Could Add 150mil Extreme Poor by 2021
COVID-19 to Add as Many as 150 Million Extreme Poor by 2021 Decades of progress have gone into reverse; ‘the worst setback that we’ve witnessed in a generation’. Eight out of 10 ‘new poor’ will be
Published : 07 October 2020
USA: Forced Eviction by Rule of Court
Many of Houston’s most vulnerable communities are still struggling to pay their rent during the pandemic. Rent relief programs and the CDC eviction moratorium are meant to protect them — but many are still forced
Published : 07 October 2020
USA: CSOs Urge Senate Reject SCotUS Pick
Following the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court, over 150 justice organizations and movements, including advocates for the homeless and defenders of the human right to adequate housing, issued
Published : 06 October 2020
New from HIC-HLRN: “A Pandemic of Violations”
On the occasion of World Habitat Day (5 October 2020) and “Urban October,” HIC-HLRN has produced its annual report from the HLRN Violation Database. This year’s review of patterns and trends in housing and land rights
Published : 05 October 2020
"A Pandemic of Violations"
On the occasion of World Habitat Day (5 October 2020) and “Urban October,” HIC-HLRN has produced its annual report from the HLRN Violation Database. This year’s review of patterns and trends in housing and land rights
Published : 05 October 2020
Land Rights of a Buddhist Monk
During a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council on October 2, Luon Sovath, a Buddhist monk and human rights activist was repeatedly interrupted by Cambodia’s Permanent Representative in Geneva, An Sokkhoeurn, who questioned the legitimacy of both Sovath’s status as
Published : 05 October 2020
