Donors Pledge $5.4 bln to Rebuild Gaza
CAIRO—“The participants pledged approximately $5.4 billion,” said Boerge Brende, reading out a closing statement at the Cairo conference which Norway co-hosted. For his part, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry unveiled on Saturday a $212 million
Published : 12 October 2014
Twiga Farm: Story of a Kenyan Land Grab
Landless citizens of a location just outside Nairobi have been fighting for their rights to land since Kenya’s independence 50 years ago. Successive governments – including those of two presidents, Jomo Kenyatta and his son
Published : 08 October 2014
New Report from HLRN`s Violation Database
For your Habitat October reading, please find here HIC-HLRN’s World Habitat Day 2014 report: Bearing Witness to Forced Evictions: Habitat II’s Broken Promise, Habitat III’s Missing Link. This year, the HLRN report from its Violation
Published : 06 October 2014
Haj 2014: Mecca’s Transformation
For a slide show of the changes to the City of Mecca since the 1950s, and prospects for future transformation, see Haj 2014: How Mecca has changed over the years
Published : 04 October 2014
Gaza: UN to Manage Israel’s Blockade?
A UN-sponsored agreement for the reconstruction of Gaza is facing sharp criticism from senior international officials and NGOs, who say it will create a restrictive new monitoring regime for building materials that risks putting the
Published : 03 October 2014
New West Bank Colony to "Seal" Jerusalem
Jerusalem—A windswept hill in occupied East Jerusalem, home to a few dozen people in dilapidated trailers, has become one of the more unlikely points of conflict in this city, the site of a controversial plan
Published : 02 October 2014
South Africa: Shack Dwellers Leader Murdered
Between half past six and seven last night, an armed man burst into Thuli Ndlovu’s home in KwaNdengezi, in Kwa-Zulu Natal, while she was watching TV. He shot her seven times and she died on
Published : 30 September 2014
Palestine: Israel Seizes West Bank Lands
Wadi Fukin, ocuppied West Bank - Israel recently announced its decision to seize nearly 400 hectares of land in the occupied West Bank, a move anti-settlement activists termed the largest land grab in 30 years. At
Published : 28 September 2014
China`s Brutal Urbanization (dossier)
China already has built a reputation for dispossessing its farming rural population and forcing them into cities. Over the last two decades of the previous century, China urbanized some 40 million people in this way.[1] This
Published : 28 September 2014
