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REDD Will Violate Rights, Accelerate Emissions |
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By: Joint Press Release from Global Forest Coalition and Indigenous Environmental Network |
| 29 November 2010 |
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Cancún, Mexico – Indigenous and environmental rights groups warn that an
agreement on REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest
Degradation) at the upcoming UN climate
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Haiti: Cholera, Its Fears & Violence Spread |
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By: Aljazeera, Agence France Presse & France24 |
| 16 November 2010 |
UN Targeted in Haiti Cholera Violence By blade, France24 16 November 2010 Protesters in northern Haiti set fire to a police station and clashed with UN peacekeepers as anger
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Angola, Congo: Expulsion, Resources and Rape |
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By: Businessweek, IRIN, The New York Times |
| 10 November 2010 |
UN Probes 770 Cases of Sexual Violence in Angolan Expulsions By Michael J. Kavanagh, Businessweek 09 November 2010 The United Nations is investigating more than 770 alleged cases
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Mongolian State Land Sale: Herders Lose All |
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By: China Labour Bulletin |
| 08 November 2010 |
The vast majority of farmland in China is effectively owned and run by individual households under the contract responsibility system, developed and implemented in the early 1980s. In the northern regions of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang however, much of the land has remained
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European Body Slams Italy’s Treatment of Roma |
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By: COHRE |
| 03 November 2010 |
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a landmark decision, Italy was found to have violated the rights of its Roma
population by the Council of Europe’s European Committee of Social Rights.
The
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Pastoralists in Angola Protest Eviction |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 14 October 2010 |
To: H.E. the Governor of Huila, Lubango Request for Space for Pastoralism in the Gado As pastoralists of the Municipal District of
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All 50 U.S. States Launch Foreclosure Probe |
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By: Alan Zibel, AP |
| 13 October 2010 |
It could take months, at least, for any settlement to be reached. But legal experts say lenders could be forced to accept an independent monitor to ensure they follow state foreclosure laws. The banks could also be subject to financial penalties and be forced to pay some people whose foreclosures
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Under Indonesia, Papua`s Floods and Conflict |
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By: Al Jazeera, Jakarta GLobe, Jakarta Post |
| 09 October 2010 |
Papua Floods May Fuel Tensions Disaster in West Papua could add to local grievances as aid workers struggle to reach the affected areas. Yasmine Ryan, Al Jazeera
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Toxic Spill Reaches Hungarian Villages, Farmlands |
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By: PBS, AFP, Reuters |
| 08 October 2010 |
Hungary Plant to Restart, Sludge May Damage Farmland * Hungarian scientists say heavy metals in soil * Greenpeace says toxic dust in air is potentially harmful * State to control MAL for up to
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Poor UN Displacement Camp Mgmt in Haiti Reported |
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By: Refugees International |
| 07 October 2010 |
Washington, DC – Nearly ten months after Haiti was devastated by the earthquake, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is still struggling to manage some 1,300 camps where over one million displaced people live in fear of hunger, rape, intimidation and forced eviction, Refugees International (RI) said today. The International
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Landmark Decision: Right to Water as Legally Binding |
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By: UN OHCHR |
| 06 October 2010 |
According to the UN Independent Expert on human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque "this means that for the UN, the right to water and sanitation is contained in existing human rights treaties and is, therefore, legally binding."
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IHLRD: HIC Renews Its Commitment to Change |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 04 October 2010 |
"Land, Habitat and Our Commitment to Change" Statement of the Habitat International Coalition on International Housing and Land Rights Day 2010 And
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UNHCR: World Faces “Near Permanent” Refugee Era |
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By: AFP/France 24 |
| 04 October 2010 |
UNHCR: World Faces “Near Permanent” Refugee Era
UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres has warned governments that unrelenting conflicts in Afghanistan and Africa are creating a near permanent "global" refugee burden.
AFP - UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres warned governments on Monday that unrelenting conflicts in Afghanistan and Africa were creating
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France: Roma Expulsions Criticized, EU to Act |
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By: BBC Online, Al Jazeera |
| 29 September 2010 |
EU to Act against France on Roma Bloc to begin infringement proceedings against Paris over expulsion of 8,000 Roma earlier this year.
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Brazil: Shell in Row over Indigenous Land Grab |
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By: Survival International |
| 28 September 2010 |
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New Stats: 1 in 7 Living Impoverished in USA |
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By: U.S. Census Bureau and other sources |
| 17 September 2010 |
Making Sense of the Census Bureau`s New Poverty Stats Al Tompkins, AI`s Morning Meeting The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that one in seven Americans lived in poverty last
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India: 3,450 Farmers Committed Suicide in 3 Years |
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By: HindustanTimes |
| 30 August 2010 |
According to figures provided to Parliament by Pawar, 1,720 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra during 2007-09, followed by 1,142 in Andhra Pradesh and 434 in Karnataka. Farmers` suicides continued in 2010 as well, with six cases in the Vidharba region of Maharashtra,
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South Sudan Plans Mass Return by 2011 |
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By: BBC Online |
| 24 August 2010 |
The proposals suggest returnees will travel on trains and buses, as well as boats down the River Nile. Some two million people have already returned to the south since the end of a two-decade conflict in 2005.
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Nigeria: Govt. Denies Port Harcourt Eviction Plan |
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By: Voice of America |
| 18 August 2010 |
A Geneva-based international rights group, the Center on Housing and Evictions (COHRE), said it had gained access to government plans to demolish a two-radius part of town known as the Abonima Wharf. COHRE says if the plans are carried out, more than half a million families will be affected.
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Pakistan Floods Linked to Climate Change |
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By: The Nation/The Telegraph |
| 11 August 2010 |
The world weather crisis that is causing floods in Pakistan, wildfires in Russia and landslides in China is evidence that global warming predictions are correct, according to climate change experts.
The disaster was driven by a “supercharged jet stream” that has also caused floods in China and a prolonged heat wave
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