KSA: Royal Land Gifts vs Housing Promises

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah earmarked 250 billion riyals ($66.7 billion) to build homes across the kingdom two years ago as the Arab Spring political unrest put pressure on the country’s leadership to address a growing

Bahrain: Royal Family has History of Favoring the Sunni

An uprising that began as a challenge to monarchic rule has become a largely sectarian movement by majority Shia Bahrainis against the Sunni leadership. As American scholar on the Persian Gulf region Joseph Kéchichian details

Palestine: More Lands Confiscation in Wadi Al Rejʹiyyat

The Israeli Jerusalem Municipality has been developing a plan (No. 13900) to establish a landfill in Wadi Al Rejʹiyyat area, on the lands of Anata, Issawiyya and Shuʹfat villages. So far, the program has been

Angola: Thousands Evicted in Luanda’s Cacuaco District

It adds insult to injury to first evict people with brute force, with no warning or time to prepare, and then imprison them when they are left homeless and destitute. The government should promptly ensure

Lands of the Arab Spring

Since the Arab Spring uprisings, much local and world attention has fixed on transforming central government institutions: presidency, legislatures and key ministries. However, contention at a far more-fundamental level, the "land question" is raging across

Sanctuary in the City? Urban Displacement & Aid

Civil Society on New Global Development Priorities

Upon expiration of the current Millennium Development Goals in 2015, the new “sustainable development goals” to be set at the international level were the subject of recent web-based consultations with global civil society conducted by

Is Fracking Flooding Egypt Village?

The village of Fares, located about 75km north of the city of Aswan near Kom Ombo, is currently being destroyed by severe flooding of contaminated water caused by controversial oil drilling practices performed over the

Arab Women and Affordable Housing: Falling Short?

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) governments are meeting the challenge of providing affordable housing for low- and average-income nationals through some bold initiatives and strategies. But women still face discrimination under most GCC regulations for getting