Palestine: Israel Expands Colonies after UAE Deal
Israel to massively expand settlements after UAE normalization Israel is announcing a major expansion of settler colonies on occupied Palestinian land, following its normalization of relations with the UAE. Israel is moving ahead with thousands of new settlement units
Published : 09 October 2020
COVID Could Add 150mil Extreme Poor by 2021
COVID-19 to Add as Many as 150 Million Extreme Poor by 2021 Decades of progress have gone into reverse; ‘the worst setback that we’ve witnessed in a generation’. Eight out of 10 ‘new poor’ will be
Published : 07 October 2020
New from HIC-HLRN: “A Pandemic of Violations”
On the occasion of World Habitat Day (5 October 2020) and “Urban October,” HIC-HLRN has produced its annual report from the HLRN Violation Database. This year’s review of patterns and trends in housing and land rights
Published : 05 October 2020
Yemen: War Shifts to Marib, 750K Risk Displacement
Yemen`s war shifts focus to Marib, thousands of displaced at risk MARIB—In Yemen’s gas-rich region of Marib, fighters loyal to the Saudi-backed government recited Koranic verses before launching a hail of mortar and machine gun fire
Published : 05 October 2020
"A Pandemic of Violations"
On the occasion of World Habitat Day (5 October 2020) and “Urban October,” HIC-HLRN has produced its annual report from the HLRN Violation Database. This year’s review of patterns and trends in housing and land rights
Published : 05 October 2020
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
