Tripoli, Lebanon: Billionaires and Bankrupts
Billionaires and bankrupts: Lebanon’s second city highlights inequality Tripoli is one of the economically stricken country’s poorest places but also home to its richest citizens In the city of Tripoli in Lebanon’s north, two yellow billboards carry
Published : 05 October 2020
New: Customary Practices Dispossessing Women
Customary Practices That Dispossess and Displace Women from Their Habitats HIC-HLRN has just released the outcomes of a study of the impacts of customary practices on women’s housing, land and property rights in Kenya. This study
Published : 25 September 2020
New: "Development" Dispossessing Women
Incidents of Infrastructure Development That Dispossess and Displace People: Baseline assessment of women’s wealth, wellbeing and habitat HIC-HLRN has just released the outcomes of an unprecedented assessment of impacts from infrastructure development on women in Kenya. This
Published : 25 September 2020
Palestine/Israel: Naqab Land Defenders Imprisoned
Update: Court Sentences Bedouin Human Rights Defenders to Imprisonment The Human Rights Defenders Fund (HRDF) and the Naqab/Negevoexistence Forum for Civil Equality (NCF) wish to update you on the highly disturbing situation surrounding the Israeli
Published : 22 September 2020
CSOs Urge UNGA to End Apartheid in Palestine
Global Response to Israeli Apartheid: A Call to the UNGA Apartheid is a crime against humanity, giving rise to individual criminal responsibility and State responsibility to bring the illegal situation to an end. In May
Published : 22 September 2020
Western Sahara: Laureates Appeal to UNSG
Open Letter to the United Nations Secretary General In solidarity with Sahrawi human rights activist and 2019 Right Livelihood Laureate Aminatou Haidar, twenty-two Right Livelihood Laureates have sent an open letter today to the United Nations
Published : 18 September 2020
Palestine/Israel: al-`Araqib Demolished for 178th Time
AL-ARAQIB, Naqab—The Israeli police and the so-called Negev Development Authority, the Yoav unit, on Thursday demolished the Bedouin al-Araqib village for the 178th time. This village is deprived of recognition in the Negev and is
Published : 18 September 2020
Jerusalem Court Orders Palestinians Forfeit Homes
Court Orders Dozens of Palestinians Out of Jerusalem Homes to Make Way for Settlers Judges base evacuation orders in two cases on claims to Jewish ownership of property from before 1948, which the law permits for
Published : 15 September 2020
Palestine: Holy Sites Crumble under Israeli Rule
Israeli land grabs are preventing Palestinians from accessing Muslim shrines in the West Bank, with some falling into ruin or being deliberately destroyed. Israel’s takeover of the mountain ranges and hills throughout the occupied West Bank
Published : 11 September 2020
