Regional Consultation on the “Women’s Right to Adequate Housing and Land” in Middle East/North Africa
The main purpose of the consultation was to advise the UN Special Rapporteur and provide testimonies on women’s housing and land rights issues across the region, and to generate guidance for States on how to meet their housing and land rights duties.
Regional Consultation on the “Women’s Right to Adequate Housing and Land”
The main purpose of the consultation was to advise the UN Special Rapporteur and provide testimonies on women’s housing and land rights issues across the region, and to generate guidance for States on how to meet their housing and land rights duties in a
“Illegal to be Homeless: the Criminalization of Homelessness in United the States.”
As homelessness increases, number of laws targeting homeless people rise.
Growing movement in China against government land grabs
When the city of Zigong needed room for new apartments for its rising middle class, it took the farms, fish ponds, orchards and houses of the farmers on its outskirts. A decade later, the farmers say they got only a fraction of what would've been fair com
Bangladesh – Shelter Slum Eviction Report
Report that summarizes evictions in Bangladesh for the period January to June 2004: 3650 evicted families, 21700 inhabitants
Israel and the Occupied Territories – Families torn apart by discriminatory policies
Thousands of Palestinians are being denied their fundamental right to live as a family by an Israeli law that is due for review at the end of this month.
HIC General Assembly Agenda
Planned for Monday, September 13, 2004, in Barcelona, Spain
Botswana’s bushmen battle for land
The bushmen, of Botswana's Kalahari are a people living in a place, and perhaps a time, that is no longer their own.
The International Court of Justice to Declare: THE WALL IS ILLEGAL!
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, despite intense pressure from Israel, the US and EU Governments, confirms what Palestinians and the world have known since the beginning of its planning and construction
BAM Tragedy Must Drive Resolve Towards Development of Safe Housing Standards Worldwide, UN Expert Says
In the process of rebuilding the lives and homes of people in Bam, it is vital that the immediate humanitarian needs be complemented by planning efforts to ensure that the human rights and sustainable development agenda is established to ensure a safe future for the people of Bam.
Black day for labour and housing rights in Germany
Over 5 million people in Germany are without job. This is a black day for the so called welfare state in Germany gasoline to the international neoliberal fire.
Deformation of social security and housing rights
German government keeps the plans to cut the benefits for unemployed to minimum welfare level, including the housing costs.