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
New West Bank Colony to "Seal" Jerusalem
Jerusalem—A windswept hill in occupied East Jerusalem, home to a few dozen people in dilapidated trailers, has become one of the more unlikely points of conflict in this city, the site of a controversial plan
Published : 02 October 2014
South Africa: Shack Dwellers Leader Murdered
Between half past six and seven last night, an armed man burst into Thuli Ndlovu’s home in KwaNdengezi, in Kwa-Zulu Natal, while she was watching TV. He shot her seven times and she died on
Published : 30 September 2014
Palestine: Israel Seizes West Bank Lands
Wadi Fukin, ocuppied West Bank - Israel recently announced its decision to seize nearly 400 hectares of land in the occupied West Bank, a move anti-settlement activists termed the largest land grab in 30 years. At
Published : 28 September 2014
China`s Brutal Urbanization (dossier)
China already has built a reputation for dispossessing its farming rural population and forcing them into cities. Over the last two decades of the previous century, China urbanized some 40 million people in this way.[1] This
Published : 28 September 2014
Palestine: Protest against Forced Eviction
Today at 10:00, approximately 40 Palestinians and internationals marched together on a demonstration in the Ezaryah area east of Jerusalem. The demonstration was called to protest the forceful eviction of Palestinian Bedouin families in the
Published : 22 September 2014
Israel Grabs ca. 1,000 West Bank Acres
Israel Land Grab Claims Nearly 1,000 Acres in West Bank Elliot Hannon, www.slate.com 1 September 2014 Israel announced on Sunday the appropriation of nearly 1,000 acres of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The land grab is
Published : 02 September 2014
UN Body Condemns US for Criminalizing Homelessness
WASHINGTON DC—The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva today stated it is "concerned at the high number of homeless persons, who are disproportionately from racial and ethnic minorities ... and at the criminalization
Published : 02 September 2014
