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Türkiye: Accountability for Quake Deaths |
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By :Turkish Minute |
| 10 February 2023 |
Turkey’s top bar association files complaint against contractors, gov’t officials for ‘murder’ after earthquake
The Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) has filed a complaint against the contractors and government officials they claim are responsible for the buildings leveled in Monday’s major earthquakes and the resulting high death toll, local media
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New report: GOLD VI by KNOW |
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By :UCLG-KNOW and contributors |
| 14 October 2022 |
The sixth edition of the GOLD report, “Pathways to Urban and Territorial Equality: Addressing inequalities through local transformation strategies”, is being produced by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and part of the KNOW team and will be published in October 2022. GOLD VI will focus on how local and
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Earth Day Workshop: Green Transition in Sudan |
| 24 April 2022 |
The challenges of the green transition in Sudan Who should fill the gap and how? Public workshop on the occasion of Earth Day 2022, in cooperation between Housing and Land Rights Network – Habitat International Coalition and GoGreen Sudan. Sudan is going through difficult transitional conditions,
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UNESCO Resolutions to Protect Jerusalem |
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By :QNN |
| 07 April 2022 |
UNESCO unanimously adopts two resolutions on state of Palestine
OCCUPIED PALESTINE—The Executive Council of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has unanimously adopted two resolutions on the State of Palestine.
At its 214th session held in Paris on Wednesday, the UNESCO [Executive Board] adopted a resolution on old Jerusalem
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IPCC: ‘Now or Never’ to Avoid Climate Disaster |
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By :Aljazeera |
| 04 April 2022 |
Climate scientists from 195 countries have warned that actions to avoid climate catastrophe have been too little and too late. This failure is the subject of two reports from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the past eight month. A new, third report presents what we can
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA |
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By :Joseph Schechla |
| 24 March 2022 |
The economic slowdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and other simultaneous crises has done little to slow the climate crisis. Preliminary data show global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) increased in 2020 while the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2°C above pre-industrial level, dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit
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Palestine/Israel: The Fight for Lifta |
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By :Nada AlTaher and Juman Jarallah, The National |
| 24 June 2021 |
Ancient village is one of hundreds that were violently depopulated by Jewish militias as Israel was formed in 1948
In a quiet valley in Jerusalem lies a village frozen in time.
Its stone buildings have stood for centuries and have long since been overtaken by plants and weeds.
This is Lifta and it
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Beirut Reconstruction: BZU Teams Wins Design Prize |
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By :Bir Zeit University, Department of Architectural Engineering |
| 16 June 2021 |
With innovative projects, university students and alumni win top places in 2021 Haifa Award for Architecture and Design
Two teams of Birzeit University architectural engineering students and alumni have won first places at the 2021 Haifa Award for Architecture and Design for their projects to reconstruct Beirut after the 2020 harbor explosion and
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Saving Palestine’s Terraced Gardens |
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By :Nadi Abusaada, The Architectural Review |
| 11 February 2021 |
Palestine’s garden walls: the deliberate destruction of Palestine’s terraced gardens
A desire is growing to mitigate the harm inflicted on the cherished terraced gardens and communities of Palestine
At almost every turn in Palestine’s central highlands, from Hebron to Nazareth, a distinctive typology of garden can be seen. This typology, however, does
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Battir, Palestine: Settlers Invade Heritage Site |
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By :Yuval Abraham, +972 mag |
| 29 July 2020 |
‘I want Battir to go to hell’: Settlers move in on Palestinian World Heritage site
Palestinians in the West Bank agricultural village of Battir are encountering armed Israeli settlers trying to push them off their land.
Khaled and Miriam Muammar live in Battir, an agricultural village in the occupied West Bank, just
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