Demise of World Bank Accountability
A forthcoming article in the American University International Law Review(AUILR) addressed “The Demise of Accountability at the World Bank?” The article by Natalie Bugalski, of Inclusive Development, examines recent trends in the accountability system at
Published : 22 June 2016
Palestine/Israel: Enforcing Naqab Housing Distress
A new report by the Negev Coexistence Forum (NCF) presents new figures about house demolitions in the Naqab/Negev. Based on discriminatory planning law-enforcement authorities’ data, the report reveals how the State of Israel uses demolition
Published : 21 June 2016
Israel: Water as a Tool to Dominate Palestinians
Israel deliberately denies Palestinians control over their water sources and sets the ground for water domination. Occupied West Bank—As temperatures rise and summer months approach, yet again this year, thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West
Published : 20 June 2016
Building an Island off Gaza Coast?
Israel wants someone to build a $5 billion island off Gaza — for a seaport, hotels, airport JERUSALEM—The Israeli government is considering a proposal to build an artificial island off the Gaza Strip that a top
Published : 20 June 2016
Tibet: Farm Women Protest Loss of Their Land
Holding the Chinese national flag and carrying photos of Chinese national leaders, Tibetan farm women marched this week outside Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa to protest the confiscation by authorities of their farmland, sources in the
Published : 17 June 2016
Jerusalem City OKs New Silwan Colony
Jerusalem City Hall approves construction of a new building for Jews in Arab neighborhood JERUSALEM—Jerusalem’s city hall on Wednesday said it approved the construction of a building for Jews in the heart of an Arab neighborhood
Published : 15 June 2016
Palestine: Confiscation & Demolitions in West Bank
Far From What the Imagination would expect it was a bitterly cold day as we drove north on route 60, the main thoroughfare that connects north and south in the occupied West Bank. The familiar,
Published : 15 June 2016
Zimbabwe Diamond-displaced Villagers Seek Help
Zimbabwe Villagers Displaced by Diamond Mining Seek Government Help. More than 1,000 families were moved from their village in 2009. MUTARE, Zimbabwe—Villagers relocated to a sprawling government-owned farm complex in eastern Zimbabwe to make way for
Published : 13 June 2016
Israel/Palestine: Erasing Jerusalem’s Map
Israeli tourism ministry`s official map of Jerusalem`s Old City marks historically unimportant sites and omits key non-Jewish holy sites and entire neighbourhoods around the historic basin Jerusalem—In groups of twos, threes and families, visitors shuffled towards
Published : 12 June 2016
