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
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
