Arab Women and Affordable Housing: Falling Short?
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) governments are meeting the challenge of providing affordable housing for low- and average-income nationals through some bold initiatives and strategies. But women still face discrimination under most GCC regulations for getting
Published : 12 January 2013
Fracking up Egypt’s Environment
It might sound like a swear word, but “fracking” isn’t causing a stir because of its sound. It’s a drilling method that has caused worry among some local environmentalists, who warn it could contaminate the
Published : 21 October 2012
Call for Moratorium on Fracking
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights calls on the Egyptian government to place an immediate moratorium on unconventional extraction activities using hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, at least until independent impact studies have been conducted and
Published : 19 September 2012
Nepal: Thapathali Squatters on Strike
KATHMANDU—Normal life has been affected in Lalitpur district due to a Lalitpur bandh called by locals to protest the government’s plan to resettle squatters evicted from encroached land in the Thapathali area at Sundarighat, Balkhu. Shops
Published : 06 July 2012
Turkey: History Razed in the Name of Regeneration
Turkey`s cultural capital is undergoing a huge construction programme that is driving out communities. A few hundred metres from the bustling Taksim Square in Istanbul, the sound of jackhammers reverberates through the street: demolitions in the
Published : 01 March 2012
Bahrain: Crisis on Donating Land for Catholic Church
(CNSNews.com) – Fanning sectarian tensions in the Gulf, Shi’ite clerics in Iran are criticizing Bahrain’s Sunni monarch for granting the Roman Catholic Church land to build a new church, complaining that he has done so
Published : 21 August 2011
Turkey: Urban Renewal Push Raises Rights Issue
Water and electricity have been cut off, and the top three stories of her four-story home have already been demolished. But with nowhere else to go, Fatma Yildiz is trying to retain a semblance of
Published : 04 March 2011
Bahrain: Row over Land Deals Unsettles the Election
Bahrain’s main opposition movement is struggling to convince supporters that working within the system is worthwhile as it campaigns for parliamentary elections on Saturday. Al-Wefaq seeks to represent the Shia majority in a country ruled by
Published : 22 October 2010
African Land Grabs not a Cure to Arab Food Concerns
As desertification dries up farmland across the Arab world, the region`s governments cannot remedy concerns about food security solely by looking to Africa for agricultural production, a regional expert said. Desertification threatens 20 percent of the
Published : 07 April 2010
