Mapping Deprivation across Lives
Mapping Deprivation across Lives: Getting the real measure of global poverty The Individual Deprivation Measure offers policymakers a chance to truly understand the multi-dimensionality of poverty, providing insights into deprivation’s unique characteristics at different stages in
Published : 05 November 2019
Pakistan: HIC Member Assaulted, Threatened
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
Published : 31 October 2019
UN Housing Expert Invites Your Comments
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
Published : 30 October 2019
Framing the Inquiry into Land Inequality
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
Published : 30 October 2019
Coastal Cities Sinking Faster than Predicted
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
Published : 29 October 2019
Israel Turns Palestinian Village into Settler Park
Israel Is turning an ancient Palestinian village into a national park for settlers The unbelievable story of a village outside Jerusalem: from its destruction in 1948 to the ticket issued last week by a parks ranger
Published : 25 October 2019
Israel-destroyed Palestinian J’lem Homes in 2019
Israel has demolished a record number of homes in occupied East Jerusalem in 2019, the most in the past 15 years, Israeli rights group B’Tselem reported on Thursday. More than 140 Palestinian homes were demolished, resulting in
Published : 25 October 2019
USA: Island Returned to Indigenous Owners
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
Published : 22 October 2019
20 Firms Emit a Third of All Carbon
New data show how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers The Guardian today reveals the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can
Published : 09 October 2019
