While most of you are staying home, HIC’s Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN) offers you its 19th issue of Land Times, bringing you up to date on the struggles over land toward greater equity,
Published : 28 April 2020Israel Evicts Palestinian Family Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Despite Assurances Israeli authorities vowed earlier this month that inhabited illegal dwellings would not be demolished or confiscated until the coronavirus crisis ends Israeli authorities seized a mobile home near
Published : 27 April 2020The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) COVID-19 stimulus measures must save lives, protect livelihoods, and safeguard nature to reduce the risk of future pandemics There is a single species that is responsible for
Published : 27 April 2020Evictions, power cuts heighten South Africa housing crisis amid lockdown JOHANNESBURG—From demolished shacks to water and electricity shutoffs, South Africa’s coronavirus lockdown is worsening the country’s housing crisis, despite government orders to suspend evictions, residents and
Published : 24 April 2020Israeli settlers exploit coronavirus to take over West Bank land with military backing: Violent attacks spike in April Since the start of the corona crisis, Israeli settlers have ramped up attacks against Palestinians throughout the West Bank, with
Published : 23 April 2020Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) has produced a new report on Jammu & Kashmir lockdown: 2019 Lockdown: A Humanitarian Perspective (20 April 2020) A presidential decree on 5 August 2019 revoked Articles 370 and 35A of the
Published : 20 April 2020On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Civil Society Calls for Urgent Release of Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons As we mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day this year, Palestinian prisoners and detainees face the additional threat of a
Published : 18 April 2020BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights BADIL`s second International Mobilization Course: The Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, West Bank, Palestine, 17 July - 28 July 2020. This course is an opportunity for international advocates,
Published : 10 April 2020The COVID19 crisis is rapidly expanding and deepening, highlighting and exacerbating existing inequalities including wealth, health, race and gender. In many countries it will develop into a deep social and economic crisis where the most
Published : 07 April 2020