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Families Displaced by Cambodian Railway Development Seek Justice from the Asian Development Bank

Published in Wednesday September 5th, 2012 In Social movement news

September 4, 2012 Families displaced from their homes and livelihoods by the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-financed project to rehabilitate Cambodia’s railway have filed a complaint to the Bank’s Compliance Review Panel (CRP) stating that they have suffered serious harms, including impoverishment, because of the project. The complaint, which was filed on behalf of affected families […]

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Open the Urban Social Forum: the ex-asylum Filangieri and in the popular districts of the city

Published in Wednesday September 5th, 2012 In Social movement news

The first day of the Urban Social Forum was open by former asylum Filangieri with the reception and registration of participants and a social lunch organized by the Organizing Committee.

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Squatting set to become a criminal offence in the UK

Published in Monday September 3rd, 2012 In In the media

August 31st, 2012 Squatting in a residential building in England and Wales becomes a criminal offence on Saturday, meaning squatters would face jail or a fine. Ministers said it would offer better protection for homeowners and “slam shut the door on squatters once and for all”. The maximum penalty will be six months in jail, a […]

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Urgent Appeal for the 236 urban poor families in Makati, Philippines

Published in Monday September 3rd, 2012 In Mobilisation and agenda

Urgent Appeal for the 236 urban poor families in Makati, Philippines As they confront threat of forced eviction and displacement On August 22-24, members of Philippine National Police and demolition team arrived in the community to implement the notice of eviction order by the City Government of Makati.  The urban poor families through the Guatemala […]

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Exposure: Young and Homeless in the US

Published in Monday September 3rd, 2012 In In the media

August 31st, 2012 By CRAIG BLANKENHORN SADLY for the children across America who are homeless today, neither presidential campaign is expected to pay much attention to them, with big policy speeches or new ideas about improving their situation. There are 1.6 million homeless children in the United States. I want to be the witness to this, […]

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New expulsions, persecution of Roma have some warning ‘Hitler was not alone’

Published in Monday September 3rd, 2012 In In the media

August 31st, 2012 “Remember that Hilter was never alone,” warns one European journalist and blogger in the wake of recent violence throughout Europe, racist actions by right wing groups, and now, just this week – more forcible expulsions of the group known as “Roma” or gypsies fromFrance. Meanwhile today, human rights groups, the European Union and several […]

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Post-Katrina Reforms in New Orleans Continue to Disenfranchise African-Americans, Poor

Published in Friday August 31st, 2012 In Opinion

August 29, 2012 Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a laboratory for government reforms. But the processes through which those experiments have been carried out have rarely been transparent or democratic, and they have often been divisive, pitting new residents against those who grew up here, rich against poor, and white against […]

France urged to stop discrimination against Roma

Published in Thursday August 30th, 2012 In News on the Rapporteurs

The French government has been urged by United Nations independent experts to stop discrimination against the Roma people. The Special Rapporteurs on minority issues, migrants, housing and racism say that evictions of the Roma continue and threaten to place families in highly vulnerable situations.

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Xayaburi dam project proceeds as protest grows in Laos

Published in Thursday August 30th, 2012 In In the media

August 29, 2012 In Laos, the construction of controversial hydroelectric dam in Xayaburi province is under way, despite disagreement from its neighbors, Cambodia and Vietnam. The Xayaburi dam project started when the Laotian government and Thailand’s giant construction company, Ch Karnchang Pcl, signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2007. However, scientists, activists and two other […]

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An Englishman’s castle: social housing in Britain

Published in Thursday August 30th, 2012 In In the media

August 25, 2012 Britain desperately needs more homes IN A city overflowing with people, the Heygate estate, near Elephant and Castle in south London, is an eerie place. Most of the flats lie empty, the windows and doors shuttered with metal plates. Concrete walkways, once intended as “streets in the sky”, extend uselessly into open […]

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