Palestine/Israel: Protesting JNF’s “Afforestation”
Israeli police violently dispersed demonstrations by Palestinian Bedouins and human rights activists over the Jewish National Fund’s afforestation work in the Naqab The JNF, together with the Israel Lands Authority, plants forests in the Naqab to
Published : 16 January 2022
Understanding Human Rights ETOs
The new Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations has just been published and it is available in open access here. This new handbook compiles lessons and analysis by world experts on the human
Published : 15 January 2022
EU-AU Food Summit ‘Hot Potato’
Green farming ambition is a hot potato ahead of EU-AU summit The issue of vaccine hoarding and African vaccine production is likely to dominate the long-delayed EU-African Union (AU) summit but both sides want to beef
Published : 06 January 2022
Israeli Judge Quits over House Demolitions
Israeli judge left High Court because it gave blank check to ‘illegal, immoral’ house demolitions Former Israeli High Court of Justice Justice Menachem Mazuz says he left the Court last year because he could no longer
Published : 24 December 2021
Palestine: Environmental Colonization and Apartheid
Israel’s environmental colonialism and eco-apartheid This article follows an earlier post on Red-Green Labour about the campaign to keep the JNF out of Cop 26, and reprints a 2012 article by the author, with updates. In 1997, a
Published : 16 December 2021
Russia Vetoes UNSC Linking Climate Crisis & Peace
Russia vetoes UN security council resolution linking climate crisis to international peace The resolution proposed that the climate crisis could potentially threaten ‘global peace, security and stability’ Russia has vetoed a first-of-its-kind UN security council resolution casting
Published : 13 December 2021
Archiving What They’ve Done to Mecca
Archives of Salt “There is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory.” —Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever “We were students of Jean Sénac’s single insistence; to unequivocally affirm our presence in the reality of this
Published : 04 December 2021
Nigeria: Orisunbare Communitiy Calls for Mercy
Orisunbare community call for mercy and reversal of the 10 days eviction notice served by LASG The Orisunbare community of some 6,000 inhabitants in Lagos State, Nigeria has issued the following appeal to remove the threat
Published : 29 November 2021
New Wave of Displacement, Killing Civilians
At least 43 people have been killed in clashes in the area, the U.N. says, while the nation’s leaders are focused elsewhere, dealing with the fallout from a coup. NAIROBI, Kenya — Dozens of people have
Published : 26 November 2021
