Israeli Settlers Torch Palestinian Farms
Jewish settlers burn Palestinian farms in Nablus Jewish settlers burnt scores of acres of Palestinian farms on Tuesday in the neighbourhood of `Aqraba to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Quds Press
Published : 09 August 2017
28 Palestinian Homes under Order of Demolition
Fifteen children in tattered clothing gathered, one on top of the other, on an old couch outside their family home in al-Walaja, a small village just outside Bethlehem city. The kids were between the ages
Published : 07 August 2017
Global Peasant Movement Convene at Bilbao
Global Peasant Movement Assesses and Responds to a Heated Political Moment Four years ago, La Vía Campesina brought its peasant activists from around the world to Jakarta for its VI International Conference. The gathering was held
Published : 28 July 2017
No SDGs without Major Progress on Land
Land and the SDGs: Key takeaways from the 2017 HLPF and what we need to do next This was the clear and strong message that was brought by the land community into the major global forum
Published : 28 July 2017
UNHRC Resolution Links Human Rights to NUA
UN resolution seen as key win for New Urban Agenda’s contentious rights language A new resolution from the United Nations’ top human rights body is being lauded by supporters in part because it solidifies contentious new
Published : 27 July 2017
Palestine/Israel: Further Dividing Jerusalem
New Knesset bill would allow parts of Jerusalem to be transferred to a new Israeli local authority. Sponsored by Education Minister Bennett and Jerusalem Affairs Minister Elkin, the bill, breaks taboo over talk of the
Published : 25 July 2017
W. Sahara/Morocco: Gdeim Izik Eviction Trial Flawed
Verdict in Sahrawi trial marred by failure to adequately investigate torture claims A court today convicted 23 Sahrawi activists over deadly clashes in Western Sahara after failing to exclude evidence tainted by allegations of torture during
Published : 19 July 2017
Palestine: Israel Grants 99.7% of Land to Settlers
In the West Bank, Israel “grants” 99.7% of Palestinian public-land to colonial Jewish settlers. JERUSALEM — Over five decades in control of the West Bank, Israel has marked out hundreds of thousands of acres as public
Published : 17 July 2017
“Spotlight” on UN High-Level Forum, SDGs
As the UN High-Level Forum opens in New York, a global civil society report spotlights the role of big business in hindering development and deepening economic and social disparity. Unbridled privatization, corporate capture and mass-scale tax
Published : 10 July 2017
