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Iraq`s Marshlands in Peril Again |
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By: IRIN |
| 21 September 2009 |
Back in 1993, fisherman Nasser Shamkhi Dawood, now aged 63, abandoned the area after former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein diverted water away from it to drive out Shia insurgents who had risen up against his regime after the 1991 Gulf War.
After 2003 and Saddam’s demise, the network of dams, dikes
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USA: Financial Crisis Hits FHA |
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By: Dina ElBoghdady, Washington Post |
| 18 September 2009 |
The Federal Housing Administration has been hit so hard by the mortgage crisis that for the first time, the agency`s cash reserves will drop below the minimum level set by Congress, FHA officials said.
The FHA guaranteed about a quarter of all U.S. home loans made this year, and the
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UN Mission Reports Gaza War Crimes Evidence |
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By: UN Press Release |
| 15 September 2009 |
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Russia`s Shrinking Cities |
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By: Karina Ioffee, Associated Press |
| 07 September 2009 |
YASNOGORSK, RUSSIA—Three decades ago, the Yasnogorsk Machine-building Factory stamped out thousands of pounds of steel and iron into parts for wagons, pumps and locomotives for Russia`s mining industry.
Now two-thirds of its stamping and welding machines have been shut down. The old Soviet-era equipment is rusting, and fewer than 280
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Australia: Aboriginal Housing Scheme Stalled |
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By: Phil Mercer, BBC News |
| 05 September 2009 |
Sydney—The A$660m (US$562m; £342m) scheme is designed to address chronic housing problems in Aboriginal communities.
The project aims to construct 750 homes in the Northern Territory and refurbish hundreds of others.
Officials blamed "administration problems" for the delays - which prompted one minister to quit.
The slow pace of this ambitious
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Indonesia: Killer Quake, Thousands Homeless |
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By: Daily Mail (UK) & Al Jazeera |
| 04 September 2009 |
Thousands Homeless after Java Quake Al Jazeera 4 September 2009 Thousands of people have been left homeless in the wake of a major earthquake that killed at least 59 people in Indonesia.
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Housing & Land Rights in Xinjiang/East Turkestan |
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By: HLRN and agencies |
| 04 September 2009 |
Riots Sparked by Racial and Religious Tensions in Xinjiang, China Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun 4 September 2009 Chinese security forces chase Han Chinese demonstrators at a roadblock
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Vanishing Peasantries and the Specter of a Global Food Crisis |
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By: Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Monthly Review (July–August 2009) |
| 31 August 2009 |
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China: CERD Finds Urban Discrimination |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 28 August 2009 |
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the UN body monitoring state compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, has issued its observations today, following its review of the People`s Republic of China. CERD has found patterns of discrimination affecting rights
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Ted Kennedy`s Housing and Land Rights Legacy |
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By: Obama Foodorama & NLIHC |
| 28 August 2009 |
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, John Boyd and the Fight to End Discrimination against Black Farmers Obama Foodorama 28 August 2009 Senator Kennedy was a shining light in one of the ugliest civil rights battles in American agricultural history—which is ongoing even
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Colombia: Massacre, Displacement of Indigenous |
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By: IDMC and others |
| 26 August 2009 |
Members or agents of the Colombia army are suspected to be responsible for the assassination of 12 members of the Awá indigenous group in Nariño department while they were sleeping in their homes on 26 August 2009. The victims of assassination included seven children and one woman, who earlier had
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Brazil: Clashes over São Paolo Slum Eviction |
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By: BBC World |
| 24 August 2009 |
Some 2,000 people living in a shanty town on the outskirts of São Paulo erected burning barricades to resist police attempts to evict them. Smoke rose above the Capão Redondo slum in the south of Brazil`s biggest city as dozens
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Two-Track Economy Emerging from Recession |
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By: Simon Johnson, The New York Times |
| 20 August 2009 |
The quick way to talk about how any economy is doing is in terms of "growth." This is just what it sounds like—a measure of how much the total value of production in a country has increased in the last month, quarter or year.
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Angola: Civil Society Addresses Forced Evictions |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 20 August 2009 |
A historical development: Members of the Angolan civil society have united to declare their extreme concern at the resurgence of forced evictions across the country. They demand that the State institutions responsible stop violations of the right to housing, guarantee human rights on a universal basis, and formulate a participatory
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Pakistani Christians Evicted and Homeless |
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By: The Deccan Chronicle and CCN |
| 18 August 2009 |
Hundreds of Pak Christians Evicted off Their Lands Deccan Chronicle, 18 August 2009 Islamabad — Hundreds of Pakistani Christians are living in tents in Islamabad for the past
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USA: Homeless Tent Cities |
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By: The New York Times & Wall Street Journal |
| 11 August 2009 |
Cities Tolerate Homeless Camps
Jennifer Levitz, Wall Street Journal
11 August 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Last summer, police responding to complaints about campfires under a highway overpass found dozens of homeless people living on public land along the Cumberland River.
Eviction notices went up—and then were suspended by Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, a Democrat,
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Angola: Oil & Housing |
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By: AfricaFocus Bulletin |
| 10 August 2009 |
With Secretary of State Hillary Clinton`s visits to Angola on 9-10 August and to Nigeria later this week, the spotlight is on U.S. geo-strategic interest in Africa`s oil and potential rivalries with China in access to the oil. But the dominant theme of oil industry developments is likely
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Atlanta GA: Homeless Advocates Sue City |
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By: Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless |
| 31 July 2009 |
"It`s high time we sought relief from the pattern and practice of harrassment of the Task Force, its emergency overflow and support services facility at Peachtree-Pine and against specific individuals who lead this organization in its powerful work," said Board Chairman Bob Cramer. "The harrassment and interference began seriously in
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Zimbabwe`s Urban Poor Face Mass Eviction |
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By: Bill Corcoran, Irish Times |
| 25 July 2009 |
Mr Mugabe`s 2005 Operation Murambatsvina (Throw out the Trash) left up to 700,000 people homeless around the country. It was widely seen as a punishment for the urban poor who overwhelmingly voted for the then opposition MDC in that year`s general election. Although
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Congo-Kinshasa: Fresh Fighting Uproots 1,000s |
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By: UN News Center |
| 24 July 2009 |
The displaced are sheltering in the Ruzizi River plain, near the DRC`s borders with Rwanda and Burundi, after fleeing the latest military campaign, called Kimia II, which started on 12 July and seeks to disarm the notorious ethnic Hutu militia known as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda
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