40-yr Struggle: Rights to Housing, Land and City
Are our global property rights still guaranteed? 40 years of global struggle for rights to housing, land and the city Gentrification, forced evictions, lack of access to housing - these are all concepts familiar to us.
Published : 12 November 2018
Iraq: Massive Fish Death in Middle Euphrates
Fishermen, fishpond owners and local residents in Babylon Province, south of Baghdad, are in shock as hundreds of thousands of carp fish suddenly died in the Middle Euphrates. This distressing news comes after major water
Published : 03 November 2018
Israeli Settler Effluent on Qalqiliya School
Israel settlers dump sewage on Palestinian school in Qalqiliya Israeli settlers dumped their sewage on a Palestinian school in the northern occupied West Bank district of Qalqilia yesterday. The Azzun Beit Amin School playground was flooded with
Published : 02 November 2018
Lebanon: Evicting Syrian Refugees
This article is based on a forthcoming policy paper examining the causes, characteristics, and consequences of the eviction of Syrian migrants and refugees from Riyak, Lebanon in 2017, in light of recent developments encouraging Syrian
Published : 24 October 2018
Liberia: New Law Affirms Customary Land Tenure
On 19 September, Liberian President George Manneh Weah signed into law the Land Rights Bill (LRB), a landmark piece of legislation that recognizes the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to their customary lands
Published : 23 October 2018
Statement of the ICC on Palestine
Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, regarding the Situation in Palestine I have been following with concern the planned eviction of the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, in the West Bank.
Published : 17 October 2018
UNHRC Adopts Peasant Rights Declaration
UN Human Rights Council passes a resolution adopting the peasant rights declaration in Geneva GENEVA—Seventeen years of long and arduous negotiations later, peasants and other people working in rural areas are only a step away from
Published : 30 September 2018
oPt Area C: Development as Resistance
Israel’s Stranglehold on Area C: Development as Resistance Israel’s efforts to tighten its grip on the West Bank have been unprecedented since the current Israeli cabinet formed in 2015. Last year, for instance, witnessed the highest
Published : 27 September 2018
Apartheid in the Continuum of Israeli Legislation
The Follow-up Committee raises the dangers of the "Nation-State Law" in Geneva GENEVA—Adelegation from the Higher Follow-up Committee of the Arab community in the country recently participated in a central international symposium at the Human Rights
Published : 24 September 2018
