Brazil: Living Rough in a Big City
Sao Paulo`s Housing Department estimates this city of more than 11 million people is short of adequate homes for at least 230,000 families. As a result, thousands of people are living in abandoned buildings downtown
Published : 29 November 2013
PNG: Foreigners Grab 1/3 of Country`s Land
Papua New Guinea is the latest victim in a modern era of land grabs orchestrated by foreign corporations, an investigative report and a film reveal. The film, entitled “On Our Land”, was screened on Tuesday
Published : 28 November 2013
Backlash by the Bay: Tech Riches Alter SFO
SAN FRANCISCO—If there was a tipping point, a moment that crystallized the anger building here toward the so-called technorati for driving up housing prices and threatening the city’s bohemian identity, it came in response to
Published : 27 November 2013
Cambodia: Foreign Firms Evict Farmers
Each year, foreign agricultural corporations deprive thousands of Cambodian farmers of their fields -- with the government`s help. Human rights groups claim German taxpayer money is used to fund a program that benefits land grabbers. Everyone
Published : 27 November 2013
UN: International Day to End Impunity
Just days following the culmination of this year’s International Day to End Impunity campaign, IFEX welcomes the news that the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly has passed by consensus a resolution on
Published : 26 November 2013
Latin America’s Housing Deficit
Probably nowhere else in the world do cities matter as much as in Latin America, highlighted by the statistical fact that four-fifths of Latin America’s 589 million people reside in cities. In fact, according to
Published : 26 November 2013
African Commission Affirms Women’s Land Rights
In November 2013, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights adopted a groundbreaking resolution on women’s right to land and other productive resources. With this resolution, the African Commission urged States “to fully comply
Published : 25 November 2013
China: Five Injured in Hainan Forced Evictions
At least five evictees were hospitalized Thursday following clashes between police, hired demolition gangs and local residents in China`s southern island province of Hainan, amid an ongoing confrontation that residents warned could lead to further
Published : 14 November 2013
Urban Revolution - Cities Are the Engines of Change
Modern-day cities no longer have walls to keep out strangers, separating those inside from the vagabonds lurking without. On the contrary, they have thrown open the gates and embraced not only people, but also countries
Published : 11 November 2013
