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Palestine: Urgent Call Gaza under fire |
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By: Jabalia Al.Nazlh Municipality, Gaza Strip
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| 17 November 2019 |
During the time while Palestinian people are preparing themselves to hold a legislative elections, the Israeli occupation has launched a new aggressive attack against Gaza people. This attack leads to the martyrdom and the wound of hundreds of innocent civilians. In addition, it leads to the destruction of dozens of
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U.N. Votes to Oblige Israel to Compensate Lebanon |
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By: Naharnet Newsdesk
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| 15 November 2019 |
The U.N. on Friday voted in favor of obliging Israel to pay Lebanon compensations over the 2006 oil spill caused by its bombing of the seaside Jiye power plant.
According to a tweet posted by MP Hagop Terzian, the U.N. decision obliges Israel to pay Lebanon $856.4 million in compensations.
158 member
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Michael Lynk’s UN report on Israeli settlements speaks the truth |
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By: Robert Fisk
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| 14 November 2019 |
He’s a very tall man with bright eyes and a broad smile, and he holds out a great paw when he greets you. But Michael Lynk is no gentle giant.
He may teach human rights law at the Western University in London, Ontario, but as the UN’s special rapporteur on human
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NGOs submit report on Israel apartheid to UN CERD |
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By: Middle East Monitor
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| 14 November 2019 |
Eight Palestinian, regional and international NGOs have submitted a substantial report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), ahead of the committee’s upcoming review of Israel’s next month.
According to a statement published this week, the NGOs in question were Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights, Al-Haq,
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Turkey’s Conflict Aquaculture Exposed |
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By: WSRW
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| 10 November 2019 |
Turkey has become the leading importer of fishmeal from occupied Western Sahara. The aquaculture company Gümüşdoğa turns the meal into valuable fisheries products for the European market.
On 6 November 2019, WSRW witnessed the arrival of the cargo vessel Derya Aytekin as it arrived at the port of Gulluk, Turkey.
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Brazil: Loggers Murder Amazon Forest Defender |
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By: Aljazeera
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| 03 November 2019 |
An indigenous forest defender has been killed and another wounded after they were ambushed by illegal loggers in Brazil`s Amazon forest, according to authorities.
Paulo Paulino Guajajara, a leader of an indigenous group seeking to protect the Arariboia indigenous reserve in Maranhao state from incursions, was shot in the face while on a
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Kenya: Village Struggles with Industrial Giant |
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By: Lotte Hughes and Daniel Lepariyo, The Star
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| 01 November 2019 |
David v Goliath: A small village’s struggle with an industrial giant
Known as Kambi Turkana to its largely Maasai neighbours, Lorropil has 47 residents, including Turkana, Samburu, Kikuyu, Il Chamus, Kisii and Kalenjin. Akiira Geothermal Ltd claims these destitute people are ‘squatters’ who have only recently moved onto the land in
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Pakistan: HIC Member Assaulted, Threatened |
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By: HIC-HLRN
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| 31 October 2019 |
Human Rights Defender Dr. Khadim Hussain Dahot threatened and physically assaulted
Dr. Khadim Hussain Dahot, human rights defender and director of HIC Member organization has been attacked outside his home in Sindh Province, Pakistan. The mob of unidentified men attacking the defender accused him of inciting sectarian violence and committing blasphemy.
Dr.
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USA: Keystone Pipeline Leaks 383K Gallon |
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By: James MacPherson, Associated Press
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| 31 October 2019 |
BISMARCK ND—TC Energy’s Keystone pipeline leaked an estimated 383,000 gallons (1.4 million liters) of oil in northeastern North Dakota, state regulators said Thursday.
Crews on Tuesday shut down the pipeline that carries tar sands oil from Canada through seven states after the leak was discovered said Karl Rockeman, North Dakota’s water
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UN Housing Expert Invites Your Comments |
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By: OHCHR
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| 30 October 2019 |
The Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Leilani Farha, invites States, UN agencies, NHRIs and civil society representatives to a consultation and discussion on the
“Guidelines for the implementation of the right to adequate housing”
which will be submitted as her final report to the forthcoming session of the
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Framing the Inquiry into Land Inequality |
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By: Arantxa Guereña and Marc Wegerif
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| 30 October 2019 |
The International Land Coalition (ILC) has launched a research project on land inequality in the world, beginning with an exercise of framing the approach the many related complexities of land inequality. The result of that initial effort is a coherent framework for research and action with suggested themes and questions for
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Coastal Cities Sinking Faster than Predicted |
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By: HIC-HLRN
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| 29 October 2019 |
Facing a flooded future, the world’s vulnerable coastal cities will undergo sea-level rise worse than previously understood, according to a new corrective report by Climate Central.
As a result of heat-trapping pollution from human activities, rising sea levels could within three decades will push chronic floods higher than land currently home
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Canada: B.C. to Align Laws with UNDRIP |
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By: Stephanie Wood, National Observer
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| 24 October 2019 |
B.C. tables United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples bill today
British Columbia is the first province to begin legislating the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, a landmark international document on Indigenous rights.
The province is introducing a bill today that will ensure all provincial laws
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USA: Island Returned to Indigenous Owners |
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By: Julia Wick, Essential California, Los Angeles Times
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| 22 October 2019 |
Eureka returns an island to a tribe nearly 160 years after a massacre
California is in a moment of long overdue reckoning with the state’s original sin: the blood-soaked treatment of the people who inhabited this land long before any white settlers ever dreamed of Manifest Destiny. In recent
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Canada: Alberta’s Oil, Gas and Coal Scandal |
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By: Andrew Nikiforuk. TheTyee.ca
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| 08 October 2019 |
Alberta’s energy regulator blasted for conflicts, mismanagement and misusing millions. It’s no surprise, say critics of agency responsible for regulating oil, gas and coal production.
Critics of the energy regulator’s performance on issues like cleanup of abandoned well say that reports the agency was mismanaged are no surprise.
Three separate Alberta government
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HIC-HLRN Report to CESCR on Israel |
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| 19 September 2019 |
HIC-HLRN has submitted a parallel report to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) on Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat, in advance of CESCR`s 66th Session on 2–3 October 2019, when the State of Israel will be reviewed. The catalyst for this particular
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HIC-HLRN Joins Partners on Israel`s CERD Review |
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| 09 September 2019 |
Habitat International Coalition (HIC) – Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) has partnered with HIC Member organizations Al-Haq and BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (Palestine), as well as with Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) in submitting a joint report to the UN Committee on
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Condemnation of Forced Eviction in Cotonou |
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| 29 August 2019 |
The Benin Federation of Slum / Informal Settlement Residents joins hands with sister movements from the Slum Dwellers International (SDI) movement across Africa to condemn the recent forced eviction of thousands of residents of Wxlacodji beach community in Cotonou. We further call on the Benin Government to engage with our
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What`s Destroying the Amazon? |
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By: Rhett A. Butler, Mongabay News
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| 23 August 2019 |
Since 1978 over 750,000 square kilometers (289,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, and French Guiana. Why is Earth`s largest rainforest being destroyed?
For most of human history, deforestation in the Amazon was primarily the product of subsistence farmers who cut down trees to produce
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Brazil: Amazon on Fire |
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By: CBS News
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| 21 August 2019 |
On Monday afternoon, the City of São Paulo, Brazil, went dark — but it wasn`t some strange cosmic event. Powerful winds carried the smoke from forest fires burning nearly 1,700 miles away, reported the BBC. Almost 73,000 fires have been detected by Brazil`s space research center INPE, according to Reuters. It`s a
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