Tibet: China Imprisons Local Land Defenders
Nine Tibetans sentenced up to 7 years in prison under China’s “organised crime” crackdown A notice issued in February 2018 by the Tibet Autonomous Region Public Security Department had criminalised various human rights activities such as
Published : 28 April 2019
DRC: Failed Agro-Industrial Park Model
The Bukanga Lonzo Debacle: The Failure of Agro-Industrial Parks in DRC is a new report of the Oakland Institute that exposes the numerous land rights violations and human rights abuses, pollution and health hazards, misspent
Published : 25 April 2019
Global Risks of Oil and Gas Overinvestment
Overinvestment in oil and gas creates risks for investors, regardless of whether the world is effective in tackling climate change. Either investors face assets being stranded as demand for fossil fuels falls in a transition
Published : 24 April 2019
South Africa: Land Reform Report Rejected
JOHANNESBURG--South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s push to reduce rural poverty and quell growing anger over unequal access to property faces further delays after a member of an advisory panel on the issue on Friday rejected
Published : 19 April 2019
USA: Seattle, Insurgent Sanctuary
Seattle’s Mayor Had the Perfect Response to Trump’s Threat to Send Immigrants to Sanctuary Cities: “The president’s threats won’t intimidate me.” On Friday, President Donald Trump said his administration was seriously considering sending undocumented immigrants caught
Published : 15 April 2019
Women’s Land and Home--Uganda
How—and how much—housing and land rights violations affect women Dispossession, forced eviction and other land and housing rights violations can have a more-significant and differentiated impact on women, given that women are often more social and
Published : 15 April 2019
Resident Revenge against Developers
Rising house prices and rents have sparked protests in London, Berlin and New York. Residents show how citizens are taking on city developers. BERLIN—Last Saturday, as the sun shone on thousands of Berliners gathered in Alexanderplatz,
Published : 11 April 2019
India’s Unrelenting Forced-eviction Crisis
New report highlights the unrelenting crisis of forced evictions, finds over 200,000 persons evicted in India in 2018. Over 114 houses demolished every day, 23 people evicted every hour. On the eve of India’s General Elections,
Published : 09 April 2019
India: Over11 million Face Eviction, Displacement
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At least 11 million people in India risk being uprooted from their homes and land as authorities build highways and airports and cordon off forests, activists said on Tuesday, undermining
Published : 09 April 2019
