A Plan to Demolish Historic Cemeteries
Cairo’s historic cemeteries are at risk of being demolished, but what is so important about such ancient grave yard? It was a full house last Saturday, at the seminar and photo exhibition titled Contemporary Cemetery Architecture
Published : 22 January 2022
Tunisia: Harassment, Gender, Sexism in the City
Tunisia: Harassment, Gender and Sexism in the City Eternal struggle for the reappropriation of public space by women It all started with a polemic, around an informal debate, together with friends in the struggle, among feminist women
Published : 22 January 2022
Jerusalem: IOF Demolish Sheikh Jarrah Home
Israel Evicts Palestinians in Flashpoint Area of East Jerusalem Israelis evicted an extended family and destroyed their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where attempted evictions last year helped spark a war with Gaza. Top of Form Bottom
Published : 19 January 2022
Palestine: Israel to Evict Sheikh Jarrah Family
In first since 2017, Israeli police try to evict family in flashpoint Jerusalem neighborhood Family member threatens to burn down home rather than leave as the illegal Israeli occupation Municipality of Jerusalem aims to seize the
Published : 17 January 2022
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
Palestine/Israel: JNF`s Felonious Forests
Invasive species, protests and forest fires: How planting a tree in Israel became controversial The Jewish National Fund has planted over 240 million trees in Israel. Critics say they are damaging Israel’s ecosystems and encroaching on
Published : 13 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
