We`re Celebrating 70th Human Rights Day
Declaration on Human Rights Day and the Right to the City We, social movements, civil society and local governments’ organizations are committed to social justice through the promotion, defense and fulfillment of all human rights related
Published : 10 December 2018
Israel Court OKs Evicting 700 Jlem Palestinians
The Israeli Supreme Court yesterday rejected a petition submitted by 104 Palestinians against claims by a right-wing Israeli organisation paving the way for 700 Palestinians to be forced from their homes, Haaretz reported. The 700 Palestinians,
Published : 22 November 2018
UN Peasants’ Rights Declaration Adopted in GA
NEW YORK—The UN General Assembly’s Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) passed a draft that would have the Assembly adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural
Published : 20 November 2018
Israeli Tech: Robbing Farmers from Palestine to India
Israeli Technology: Dispossessing Farmers from Palestine to India For the past few years, Israeli technology is being hailed as a panacea for Indian farmers. Israel is making great strides in winning major state funded agriculture projects and is
Published : 20 November 2018
USA: More HUD Tenants Now Living in Squalor
Under Ben Carson, more families live in HUD housing that fails health and safety inspections While HUD Secretary Ben Carson pledged to fix low-income housing, the number of properties cited for health and safety violations has
Published : 15 November 2018
40-yr Struggle: Rights to Housing, Land and City
Are our global property rights still guaranteed? 40 years of global struggle for rights to housing, land and the city Gentrification, forced evictions, lack of access to housing - these are all concepts familiar to us.
Published : 12 November 2018
Baltimore: 1st Major City to Ban Water Privatization
We all need safe food and clean water. BALTIMORE MD—Baltimore voters made history today by voting in favor of passing ballot question E, a city charter amendment that bans privatization of the city’s water and sewer
Published : 07 November 2018
CAR: 10K Displaced in Batangafo
NEW YORK—Following clashes on Wednesday between armed groups in Central African Republic (CAR), more than 10,000 people fled their homes and are seeking refuge in the compound of a hospital in Batangafo supported by the
Published : 02 November 2018
Stop Land Grabs – Declaration
Declaration of the Social Movements: Ten Peoples’ Principles Against Land Grabs, Evictions and Neoliberalism “Let a New World be born in Bandung for a genuine land reform, not land grabs!” — Bandung-Indonesia, September 24, 2018. The world
Published : 30 October 2018