In Azhar Park on June 15, Christine Auclair, coordinator of the World Urban Campaign, invited a group of journalists, urban researchers, activists, government players and others to brainstorm about a national campaign on urban issues
Published : 17 June 2015For the last three years, the Global Frackdown initiative has played an important role in connecting the collective movement against fracking and elevating the call to ban fracking and related infrastructure and processes. It has shed
Published : 15 June 2015The IDF orders Palestinian residents from the northern Jordan Valley to evacuate their own homes in order to make way for military drills, which have previously damaged farmland and infrastructure. The Israeli army evacuated 10 families
Published : 11 June 2015HIC at the Expo dei Popoli, Milan From 3-5 June 2015, international social movements and NGOs working on issues of food sovereignty and environmental justice gathered together in Milan at the Expo dei Popoli. This event
Published : 10 June 2015Jadaliyya (J): What made you put together this book? Hamza Hamouchene and Mika Minio-Paluello (HH & MM-P): The idea was both to highlight the violence of climate change in North Africa, and the need for an
Published : 10 June 2015Egypt’s new capital will be the largest planned city in history. But is it possible? Cairo’s thousand year reign as the capital of Egypt is under threat by a new capital. Set to rise from the
Published : 08 June 2015A new publication for UN Habitat, “Right to Develop: Planning Palestinian Communities in East Jerusalem” provides an overview of the planning praxis of Palestinian communities in East Jerusalem. Planning practice in the context of East
Published : 06 June 2015GENEVA—The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Makarim Wibisono, today reiterated his call on the Government of Israel to abandon and desist from implementing
Published : 05 June 2015By rejecting a petition by Palestinian residents of Area C, Israel’s High Court of Justice effectively cemented two separate planning regimes on the same plot of land: one for Jews, another for Palestinians. Israel’s High Court
Published : 05 June 2015