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United States: Congress Passes Mortgage Crisis Bill |
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By: Bill Naylor, National Public Radio
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| 27 July 2008 |
The White House on Monday will receive a far-reaching housing bill from Congress for President Bush`s signature.
The Senate approved the measure 72-to-13 on Saturday. The bill would help homeowners on the brink of foreclosure and rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which together back nearly half of the nation`s
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Cambodia: The Battle over Land |
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By: Andrew Nette, Newsmekong*
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| 10 July 2008 |
RATANAKIRI, Cambodia (IPS) - In thick forest in the northeast Cambodian province of Ratanakiri, a team of lawyers uses a global positioning satellite handset to mark the location of traditional spirit forests and gravesites belonging to local Jarai villagers.The stark contrast between old and new, the latest technology and ancient
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Palestine: Israeli Courts Endorse Transfer |
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By: Al Haq
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| 09 July 2008 |
Israeli High Court Endorses Indirect Forcible Transfer in al-Nu`man Village
Today, 9 July 2008, the Israeli High Court of Justice (the Court) issued its decision on the case brought by Al-Haq, Defence for Children International – Palestine Section and the residents of al-Nu’man village against the Prime Minister of Israel, the
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Oaxaca`s Government Land Grab |
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By: Theresa Kleinhaus and Maya Schenwar, t r u t h o u t | Report
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| 08 July 2008 |
Oaxaca and Chicago - On 30 April, in the small village of Santo Domingo Ixcatlan, in Oaxaca, Mexico, a group of armed men from the paramilitary group the "White Guards" pulled over the car of carpenter Gustavo Castaneda Hernandez, a villager and vocal opponent of the sale of Santo Domingo`s
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Kashmir Land Dispute |
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By: Various
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| 01 July 2008 |
Kashmir Violence over Shrine Land
By Altaf Hussain, BBC News, Srinagar
24 June 2008
One person has died after police fired on a group of protesters in Srinagar, capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.
The capital was rocked by protests on Monday evening over the controversial transfer of forest land for a
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Historic Development: Optional Protocol for ICESCR |
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By: Op-ICESCR Coalition
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| 18 June 2008 |
Geneva: the United Nations Human Rights Council today approved by consensus an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The momentous decision today by the Human Rights Council brings one step closer the possibility of an international remedy mechanism for violations of the International Covenant
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Egypt Cedes UN Access to Eritrean Refugees |
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By: Gulf News
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| 15 June 2008 |
Cairo: The Egyptian government has agreed to give the United Nations access to Eritreans seeking political asylum in Egypt for the first time since February, the UN refugee agency said on Sunday. However, the agreement coincided with large-scale deportations of Eritrean migrants by the Egyptian authorities and it was not
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Outrage over Jerusalem Housing Plan |
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By: Al Jazeera News, Online Edition
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| 13 June 2008 |
Palestinian officials have expressed outrage at Israeli plans to build about 2,000 new housing units in occupied east Jerusalem. Israel`s interior ministry said on Friday that 1,300 apartments had been approved for construction in the Ramat Shlomo neighbourhood, almost doubling the size of the settlement there.
Sabine Hadad, Israel`s interior ministry spokeswoman, said
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Palestine: 18 Years` Work Destroyed in < 4 Hours |
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By: PCHR
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| 06 June 2008 |
Nasser Jaber spent eighteen years building up his chicken farm in the southern Gaza Strip. Two weeks ago the IOF bulldozed his farm, killing 40,000 of his chickens, and destroying his business.
“They came at four in the morning, with two bulldozers, and they left before 8am. I own this
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41 Years of Israel’s Illegal Settlement Policy |
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By: Al Haq
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| 05 June 2008 |
5 June 2008 marks the 41st year of Israel’s occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. On this occasion Al-Haq calls on the international community to take immediate and concrete action in response to Israel’s continued policy of settlement expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
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Israeli Demolition Threatens 3,000 Palestinian Homes |
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By: Al Awda
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| 27 May 2008 |
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank risk being displaced as the Israeli authorities threaten to tear down their homes and in some cases entire communities, a UN agency said on Wednesday.
"To date, more than 3,000 Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank have pending demolition orders,
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Sudan: Land Clashes, Displacement (video) |
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By: IRIN and al-Jazeera
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| 26 May 2008 |
JUBA, 24 March 2008 (IRIN) - Recent clashes between the Sudan People`s Liberation Movement (SPLM) army and fighters from the mainly Arab Miserriya community have displaced hundreds of civilians from their homes and raised tension across Abyei, the governor of the region lying between the north and South Sudan, said.
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Israel Protests UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon`s Use of Term |
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By: Rotem Sela, The Marker Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
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| 21 May 2008 |
The Israeli mission to the United Nations is seeking clarifications after an official communique released by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon`s bureau made specific reference to the word "nakba," according to a report broadcast on Israel Radio early Friday morning. The report said the UN chief telephoned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to
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Expulsion & Dispossession No Cause to Celebrate |
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By: Seumas Milne, The Guardian
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| 16 May 2008 |
George Bush arrived in Jerusalem yesterday to celebrate Israel`s 60th anniversary and talk up what has to be the most bizarre proposal yet for achieving peace: a "shelf agreement". This, Bush explained before he set out, would be a "description" of a Palestinian state to be hammered out between the
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No Alternative But to the Return to Our Homes and Properties |
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By: National Committee Nakba-60
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| 15 May 2008 |
Public Statement of the National Committee to Commemorate the Nakba at 60–Palestine
Their is no Alternative to the Return to Our Homes and Properties
To the People of Palestine,
Whether you live within the `Green Line`, in Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza, or in exile; you shall return, there is no
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Egypt: Poor Pay More Tax, Real Estate Profits Protected amid Food Crisis |
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By: Reuters
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| 05 May 2008 |
CAIRO - Egypt`s parliament approved steep increases in fuel and cigarette prices and vehicle licence fees on Monday to cover the costs of public-sector pay hikes that President Hosni Mubarak proposed last week. Economists said some measures, such as the increase in fuel prices, would add to high inflation and offset
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“Life Is Not Ours”: Attacks on Indigenous Jumma People of Bangladesh |
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By: ACHR Weekly Review
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| 23 April 2008 |
On 20th April 2008 as the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues gathered in New York to hold its seventh session, hundreds of illegal plain settlers attacked seven indigenous Jumma villages in the Chittagtong Hill Tracts (CHTs) of Bangladesh. These villages - Nursery Para, Baibachara, Purba Para, Nangal Mura,
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Sierra Leone Slum Hunger |
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By:
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| 21 April 2008 |
Here, Adama Gondor, who runs the clinic, describes a sad case of severe
malnutrition and an unnecessary death.
So mothers have been bringing their children under the age of five for
screening: we measure their height, their weight and the circumference of their
arm.
If they fall below 80% of
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Joint Oral Statement to Human Rights Council / Item 3 |
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By: International NGO Coalition for an Optional Protocol to the ICESCR
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| 06 March 2008 |
International NGO Coalition for an Optional Protocol to the ICESCR
Joint Oral Statement to the 8th session of the Human Rights Council / Item 3
Joint Oral Statement to the 8th session of the Human Rights Council / Item 3
Delivered by Sandra Ratjen, FIAN International
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DRC: Crisis Spills over into South Kivu |
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By: ICRC
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| 28 February 2008 |
The ICRC has begun a distribution of essential items—clothing, blankets, mats, soap and kitchen sets—to over 500 displaced families who have taken refuge in South Kivu after fleeing the fighting in the neighbouring province of North Kivu.
The distribution is being carried out together with the Red Cross Society of the
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