ABU DHABI—At a networking event in the 10th World Urban Forum (WUF) to consider a new UN Habitat “Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism for Sustainable Development,” HIC-HLRN presented its contribution to the current discussion about the eventual
Published : 09 February 2020The German extraction industry giant, HeidelbergCement is implicated in cross-border organized violations of international law in Palestine. AMSTERDAM/RAMALLAH—The German multinational HeidelbergCement is complicit in the pillaging of natural resources from the Nahal Raba quarry in the occupied West
Published : 04 February 2020Haunted houses are always full of hidden passageways, secret rooms and a story or two about someone who used to live there who disappeared or died under mysterious circumstances. The Park house in “Parasite” is
Published : 03 February 2020Navajo Nation President Nez Sides with Kit Carson on Palestine The [president of the] Navajo Nation’s partnership with Zionist organizations raises historical questions. Black men fighting for their freedom once drenched the earth with the blood of
Published : 02 February 2020United States President Donald Trump authorizes a shift to wider U.S. military use of land mines, after much of the world has banned their use. WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Friday canceled an Obama-era prohibition on the
Published : 31 January 2020CHICAGO—U.S. farm bankruptcy rates jumped 20% in 2019 - to an eight-year high - as financial woes in the U.S. agricultural economy continued, in spite of massive federal bail-out funding, according to federal court data. According
Published : 30 January 2020How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment against Chevron Lost Everything Last August, during the second-hottest year on record, while the fires in the Amazon rainforest were raging, the ice sheet in Greenland was melting,
Published : 29 January 2020In joint presentations, US President Donald Trump and pro tem Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed the long-anticipated/-dreaded “deal of the century” today in a White House ceremony. The entitled “Peace to Prosperity” document is
Published : 28 January 2020Stop blaming population growth for climate change. The real culprit is wealth inequality. Consumption by the world’s richest 10% makes up half of the planet’s consumption-based CO₂ emissions. Why we should be wary of blaming
Published : 28 January 2020