Right to the City @ the UN
Right to the City is widely supported in the open-ended informal Habitat III consultations at UN Headquarters Last week in New York, proponents advocated the adoption of the Right to the City in New Habitat Agenda
Published : 12 June 2016
CFS Recommendations on Connecting Smallholders to Markets
The Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Connecting Smallholders to Markets of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) convened from 8-9 June 2016, at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
Published : 09 June 2016
Sudan: Judicial Harassment of CSO Members
Sudan should cease judicial harassment of civil society members and release TRACKs detainees The harassment of Sudanese civil society activists affiliated with the organisation TRACKs for Training and Human Development (TRACKs) has escalated over recent days,
Published : 08 June 2016
Egypt: Slums = 38.6% of All Built Environment (2016)
Today Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) issued 8/6/2016 study on "Development of slums area in Egypt," The main indicators are as following: The total area of slums reached 160.8 thousand feddans* represents
Published : 08 June 2016
Iran: 11 mil Slum Residents, 3.5 mil Jobless
In places around Iran, unemployment rate stands at 60 percent, according to the country`s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli. Fazli today appeared in the parliament to brief the MPs on Iran`s social issues, IRNA news agency
Published : 06 June 2016
Food Experts: “Adopt Agroecology or Perish”
BRUSSLES/TRONDHEIM—Input-intensive crop monocultures and industrial-scale feedlots must be consigned to the past in order to put global food systems onto sustainable footing, according to the world’s foremost experts on food security, agro-ecosystems and nutrition. The solution
Published : 02 June 2016
Bahrain: UNSRs Condemn Land Rights Defender’s Sentence
“I am in prison, because the beach that I know lies behind this building that I am locked up in, but nobody is able to see it. The sea is one of the most attractive
Published : 01 June 2016
Brazil: Goiás Land Struggle, Exercise in Citizenship
On the afternoon of 31May, one of the national leaders of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), operating in Goias, Jose Valdir Misnerovicz, was arrested in Rio Grande do Sul, in a joint operation of the
Published : 01 June 2016
EC Backs Gasline “ending Cyprus isolation”
“We want to make sure that Cyprus is much better connected, not only with its neighbours in the eastern Mediterranean, but also with the European Union,” Maroš Šefčovič, the EU commissioner for Energy Union, told
Published : 01 June 2016
