New On-line Displacement Research Platform
CAMBRIDGE MA—MIT’s Displacement Research & Action Network (“The Network”) is pleased to announce the launch of its new website http://displacement.mit.edu. The site is a collaboration of academics from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Published : 05 December 2013
CSOs to UN: Bind TNCs to Human Rights
BANGKOK—Over one hundred civil society organizations and social movements have publicly joined the growing call for States to begin taking steps toward establishing a binding international treaty to deal with corporate human rights abuses. The
Published : 04 December 2013
UN Judges Egypt on Habitat Rights
GENEVA—On 2 December 2013, following its review and formal dialog with the Arab Republic of Egypt, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) publicly issued its concluding observations on the state’s performance
Published : 02 December 2013
Yemen: Fresh Land Mines
Geneva—Yemen should investigate the allegations that its Republican Guard forces laid thousands of antipersonnel landmines in 2011, Human Rights Watch said today at the opening of an annual meeting of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty.
Published : 02 December 2013
Palestine/Israel: Rage against Prawer Plan
So far in 2013, Israeli forces have demolished at least 121 homes and other structures belonging to Palestinian citizens in the Naqab, uprooted tens of trees, plowed under hundreds of acres of cultivated land, and
Published : 02 December 2013
Palestine: PM Pushes Prawer amid Protests
28 arrested, 15 police officers wounded in protests against Prawer bill; Southern District chief: There is an attempt to start a war here. Beduin Israelis and their supporters staged violent protests in several locations across the
Published : 01 December 2013
Egypt: Protests for Attaining Illegally Occupied Flats
CAIRO, Tens of Egyptians on Sunday filed for permission to stage a protest against the security forces’ failure to retrieve apartments reserved in their names in Qalyubia, a governorate located north of Cairo, reported the
Published : 01 December 2013
Western Sahara: EU-Morocco Fisheries Shame
The European Parliament’s fisheries commission approved the new EU-Morocco fisheries protocol on Wednesday, November 27th, in what only can be qualified as a “Vote of Shame.” “The Commission, voted this illegal fishing accord with Morocco, with
Published : 30 November 2013
Cities in Conflict: The Lessons of Syria
Syria is a highly urbanised country, and the conflict there has had a particularly devastating impact on its cities and towns. Homs, Aleppo, Damascus and many smaller towns have served as battlegrounds for government and
Published : 30 November 2013
