Egypt: Carter Center Closes Egypt Office
The Carter Center announced today that it has closed its field office in Egypt after nearly three years and that it will not deploy an observation mission to assess Egypt`s parliamentary elections anticipated later this
Published : 15 October 2014
The Struggle over World Bank Safeguards
The World Bank’s “consultation” with global civil society on the proposed new safeguard policies in lending and project implementation took place in Washington DC on 11 October 2014. The proceedings of the session reflect wide
Published : 14 October 2014
Disappointing ICN2 Outcomes
Governments met in the FAO Headquarters in Rome from 10-12 October to finalize the Rome Political Declaration and the Framework for Action for the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2). After 22 years, civil society
Published : 14 October 2014
Israel’s Jerusalem “Judaisation” Progressing
Jerusalem—After a tumultuous summer, the clashes outside al-Aqsa mosque on October 8 that injured more than 20 people seemed almost alarmingly mundane. On Monday, 13 October, fresh clashes erupted when hundreds of Israeli police forces raided the al-Aqsa mosque
Published : 13 October 2014
Donors Pledge $5.4 bln to Rebuild Gaza
CAIRO—“The participants pledged approximately $5.4 billion,” said Boerge Brende, reading out a closing statement at the Cairo conference which Norway co-hosted. For his part, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry unveiled on Saturday a $212 million
Published : 12 October 2014
Twiga Farm: Story of a Kenyan Land Grab
Landless citizens of a location just outside Nairobi have been fighting for their rights to land since Kenya’s independence 50 years ago. Successive governments – including those of two presidents, Jomo Kenyatta and his son
Published : 08 October 2014
New Report from HLRN`s Violation Database
For your Habitat October reading, please find here HIC-HLRN’s World Habitat Day 2014 report: Bearing Witness to Forced Evictions: Habitat II’s Broken Promise, Habitat III’s Missing Link. This year, the HLRN report from its Violation
Published : 06 October 2014
Haj 2014: Mecca’s Transformation
For a slide show of the changes to the City of Mecca since the 1950s, and prospects for future transformation, see Haj 2014: How Mecca has changed over the years
Published : 04 October 2014
Gaza: UN to Manage Israel’s Blockade?
A UN-sponsored agreement for the reconstruction of Gaza is facing sharp criticism from senior international officials and NGOs, who say it will create a restrictive new monitoring regime for building materials that risks putting the
Published : 03 October 2014
