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
Sudanese Women adopt positive Discrimination Principle
Over 30 associations of displaced women from war zones in the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile, and Darfur regions have demanded the adoption of the principle of positive discrimination for justice and access to rights, along
Published : 20 June 2021
Beirut Reconstruction: BZU Teams Wins Design Prize
With innovative projects, university students and alumni win top places in 2021 Haifa Award for Architecture and Design Two teams of Birzeit University architectural engineering students and alumni have won first places at the 2021 Haifa Award for
Published : 16 June 2021
