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Another landslide in Bududa

Published in Monday August 12th, 2013 In In the media

According to a principal nursing officer at Bududa hospital Zeles Nabusayi Wakubona, among those admitted is a 55-year-old Peretina Nabifo of Namirumba village who was hit on the chest after the walls of the house in which she took shelter crumbled and hit her on the chest.

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Thousands of Marylanders are losing homes in second wave of foreclosures

Published in Monday August 12th, 2013 In In the media

Maryland is getting a second dose of the housing crisis — a sequel that foreclosure experts and state officials knew was coming but no one wanted to see.

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9,000 hit by forced evictions in Nigeria

Published in Monday August 12th, 2013 In In the media

Forced evictions in Nigeria’s largest city Lagos have cost around 9,000 people their homes or livelihoods, Amnesty International and a local rights group said in a report. Tens of thousands more could be at risk if the government proceeds with plans to redevelop the slum area of Badia East, said the report, issued jointly with the Social and Economic Rights Action Centre (SERAC).

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Homeless Tour Gives Glimpse of Berlin’s Underbelly

Published in Thursday August 8th, 2013 In In the media

This tour was developed by Carsten Voss in collaboration with the association querstadtein. Its goal is to bring people who live on the margins of society into contact with the mainstream public by offering homeless people an opportunity to give guided tours of their neighborhoods — the parks and streets where they meet their friends, and the organizations and outreach centers that provide them with support.

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Centuries-Old Gardens Are the Latest Battleground in Istanbul

Published in Tuesday July 16th, 2013 In In the media

Many in Istanbul see the destruction of the traditional market gardens (known in Turkish as bostan) as the latest in a series of assaults on the city’s historic character and unique identity. Frustrations with the pace and process of change boiled over at the end of May, erupting into mass protests after police repeatedly tear-gassed people peacefully demonstrating to protect Gezi Park, a rare green space in the center of the city, from being turned into the site of a shopping mall. The ongoing debate raises bigger questions about who benefits from the city’s changing landscape.

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Spain Top Court Freezes Andalusia Anti-Eviction Decree

Published in Friday July 12th, 2013 In In the media

Spain’s constitutional court has suspended a regional decree that makes it harder for banks to conduct evictions and penalizes lenders and real-estate firms for holding vacant properties, a spokeswoman for the government of Andalusia said Thursday.

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Spain Suspends Anti-eviction Measures

Published in Friday July 12th, 2013 In In the media

Spain’s Constitutional Court on Thursday suspended the use of measures aimed at preventing banks from evicting mortgage defaulters from their homes until it makes a final ruling on the matter.

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One Vermont Town Fights a Farm to Improve Housing for Migrant Workers

Published in Thursday July 11th, 2013 In In the media

In Salisbury, town officials have made the unusual choice to intervene in a case of second-rate worker housing. At a dairy farm owned by Randy and Jean Quesnel, two Latino farmworkers have been living in filth for years. The laborers, who are in the country illegally, live in a small bunkhouse affixed to the barn where they milk cows. The two-room dwelling has an open wastewater drain in the middle of the concrete floor. There’s no indoor toilet; the workers must walk past the cow stanchions to a Porta-Potty outside the barn.

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Cambodia’s sugar rush leaves farmers feeling bitter at ‘land grab’

Published in Wednesday July 10th, 2013 In In the media

Yoen Sarin is just one of thousands of Cambodian farmers who claim they are losing their land and livelihoods to big sugar plantations.

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Financial Crisis Just a Symptom of Detroit’s Woes

Published in Wednesday July 10th, 2013 In In the media

As officials negotiate urgently with creditors and unions in a last-ditch effort to spare Detroit from plunging into the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history, residents say the city has worse problems than its estimated $18 billion debt.

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