Murder and eviction: New Era of Global Land rush
Millions of people face being displaced from their homes as new data shows land sales covering an area the size of Germany are now under contract, warns Oxfam. Seventy-five percent of the more than 1500 land deals
Published : 26 September 2016
Palestine: Report on Israeli settlements Construction
Middle East Quartet’s report expressing vehement opposition to Israel’s ongoing settlement construction and warning that it risked ending the chance of two-state solution hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies. The three dailies reported the
Published : 24 September 2016
Somalia: 5 mil Go Hungry, UN Says
NAIROBI, Sept 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of Somalis who do not have enough to eat has risen to five million, or more than four out of ten people, due to poor rains,
Published : 20 September 2016
Palestine: Kuwaiti Fund for Gaza Reconstruction
More than 300 families whose homes were destroyed during Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza are expected to receive financial aid from the Kuwaiti fund, Minister of Public Works Mufeed Hasayneh said on Tuesday. He said in
Published : 20 September 2016
Turkey: Resistance to Cerattepe Gold Mine
Cerattepe court case stalled after request for judge’s recusal Residents of Artvin, a small town in the North-eastern Black Sea region in Turkey continue to resist the opening of a dangerous gold and copper mine in
Published : 20 September 2016
Israeli Forces Evict J’lem Palestinian Family
Israeli forces evict Palestinian family in East Jerusalem to make room for Israeli squatters BETHLEHEM—Israeli forces Thursday evicted a Palestinian family from their home in the neighborhood of Saadiya in the Old City of occupied East
Published : 16 September 2016
ICC to Pursue Land Grab as Series Crime
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has declared that it would start treating cases involving the illegal exploitation of natural resources, misuse and illegal dispossession of lands and environmental destruction as serious crimes. The Hague-based Court made
Published : 15 September 2016
Queer Declaration, Right to the City & Habitat 3
The final document called the New Urban Agenda will be adopted by heads of state at the Habitat 3 Conference in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016. www.habitat3.org The Queer Declaration came out of a consultation of
Published : 07 September 2016
2,500 Native Americans Block Oil Pipeline
2,500 Native Americans Successfully Block Oil Pipeline Construction — State of Emergency Declared Last week, a few dozen Native Americans showed up to protest the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile-long pipeline that would cross right through their sacred
Published : 23 August 2016
