Cooling Cairo: One Rooftop Garden at a Time
Cooler, Cleaner Megacities, One Rooftop Garden at a Time Growing greens can be a powerful tool for change. The view of Cairo from the air is one of concrete buildings and tangled overpasses stretching as far as the eye
Published : 08 July 2021
Gaza: World Bank Sets War Losses @ $570 mil
US$570 million physical and economical losses in Gaza, says World Bank RAMALLAH—The eleven days of hostilities in May 2021 in Gaza resulted in the loss of over 260 people, including 66 children and 41 women, and
Published : 07 July 2021
Human Rights and Land Event: Friday, 9 June
Draft general comment on Land and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Friday 9 July 2021, 13:30 – 16:30 CEST live on Zoom from Villa Moynier, Geneva The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is now developing a
Published : 05 July 2021
Nordic Fund Bans 16 Firms over Illegal Colonies
Nordic fund KLP excludes 16 companies over links to Israeli settlements in West Bank OSLO—Norway`s largest pension fund KLP said on Monday it would no longer invest in 16 companies including Alstom ALSO.PA and Motorola MSI.N because of their links
Published : 05 July 2021
Palestine: Bulldozers, Ethnic Cleansing the End to 2-States
How bulldozers, Bedouin and ethnic cleansing herald the death of the two-state solution Bedouin villagers of Khan al-Ahmar fear their long-threatened West Bank community may be demolished within days KHAN AL-AHMAR, Occupied West Bank - It takes barely
Published : 01 July 2021
The Nakba and the Polish Law
In 1948, more than 700,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed by the newly born Jewish `State`. This catastrophic racially driven crime is called the Nakba. "Israel" seems upset by a new Polish law that sets a 30-year
Published : 30 June 2021
Lebanon’s Sectarian Oligarchic Economy
How a Sectarian Oligarchy Destroyed Lebanon’s Economy Lebanon is coping with an unprecedented banking crisis that has plunged more than half of the population into poverty. Those responsible are sectarian political elites who have plundered the economy
Published : 30 June 2021
Palestine/Israel: The Fight for Lifta
Ancient village is one of hundreds that were violently depopulated by Jewish militias as Israel was formed in 1948 In a quiet valley in Jerusalem lies a village frozen in time. Its stone buildings have stood for
Published : 24 June 2021
Special Rapporteurs on adequate housing @ 20
Today, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, presents his report to the UN Human Rights Council: “20 years Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing – Tacking stock –
Published : 22 June 2021
