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
Israel Spikes Home Demolitions in Pandemic
UN: Israeli Demolition of Palestinian Homes Increases Despite Pandemic Dozens of Palestinians were recently displaced because Israeli authorities destroyed their homes, even as Covid-19 cases increased by a third. The Israeli government`s demolition of Palestinian homes in
Published : 11 September 2020
US War on Terror Displaced 37 million+
A new report calculates the number of people who fled because of wars fought by the United States since At least 37 million people have been displaced as a direct result of the wars fought
Published : 08 September 2020
