Tanzania: Displaced Maasai Facing Evictions
Broken Promises: Relocation Sites for Maasai Facing Evictions Remain Critically Flawed with Risk of Conflict Escalating Field research in Msomera—the site picked by the Tanzanian government to relocate Indigenous residents who face evictions from the Ngorongoro Conservation
Published : 01 December 2022
Nigeria`s Slum Lords Evict the Poorest
Nigeria`s slum lords evict the poorest as rents soar What’s the context? Rent inflation is causing pain in a nation where most people spend over half their income on housing, especially in Abuja: Rents skyrocket in Abuja due
Published : 28 November 2022
CSOs Defying Israeli Military Orders
Why My Organization Has Chosen to Defy Israeli Military Orders My organization, Al-Haq, was among 7 raided by Israel and ordered closed in August, but we do not believe in following illegal orders—and so we will
Published : 21 November 2022
CoP27: Climate Justice amid Loss and Damage
The recent CoP27 decision to establish a loss-and-damage is a monumental gain toward survival of the communities most-vulnerable to climate change and its effects. However, this hopeful statement comes with several caveats: Perhaps primary among
Published : 20 November 2022
Webinar: Major outcomes of CoP27
Webinar: Major outcomes of CoP27 negotiations on Resilience and Adaptation Moderator: Diam Bou Diab, Senior Program and Research Officer at ANND Speakers: Sarine Karajerjian, Program Director at Arab Reform Initiative Joseph Schechla, Coordinator of the Habitat International Coalition’s Housing and Land Rights
Published : 13 November 2022
Food Chain Global Youth Champ: Samuel Ikua
Food Chain Global Youth Champion 2022: Samuel Ikua We are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of BBC’s Food Chain Global Youth Champion Award is Samuel Ikua, of HIC Member Mazingira Institute in Nairobi, Kenya. Samuel teaches
Published : 10 November 2022
CoP27, Day 1: Loss & Damage on the Agenda
CoP27, Day 1: Loss and damage funding introduced as an agenda item Yeb Saño, Greenpeace’s CoP27 head of delegation, says: “It is a significant moment that loss and damage finance has been agreed as an agenda
Published : 07 November 2022
Land Governance Is Key to Implement 2030 Agenda
Stig Enemark explains the concept of land governance and importance in supporting the 2030 global agenda. The term “land governance” is relatively new. It appeared in the early 2000s as an extension of the concept of
Published : 02 November 2022
Climate Crisis Is a Racial Justice Crisis
There can be no meaningful solution to the global climate and ecological crisis without addressing systemic racism, and particularly the historic and contemporary racial legacies of colonialism and slavery, a UN human rights expert warned. “Climate
Published : 31 October 2022
