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UN envoy told to press RI on housing rights

Published in Monday June 10th, 2013 In In the media

Human rights groups have called on the United Nations special rapporteur on housing rights, Raquel Rolnik, to demand that the Indonesian government immediately resolve cases of housing rights violations, such as forced evictions and the forced expulsion of minority groups.

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UN Rapporteur Visits Indonesia to Observe Housing

Published in Monday June 10th, 2013 In In the media

A United Nations special rapporteur has arrived in Indonesia to gauge the government’s commitment to ensuring adequate housing for all. A statement from the office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights said that Raquel Rolnik would be in the country from May 30 to June 11 to visit communities in Jakarta and elsewhere.

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UN envoy told to press RI on housing rights

Published in Monday June 10th, 2013 In In the media

Human rights groups have called on the United Nations special rapporteur on housing rights, Raquel Rolnik, to demand that the Indonesian government immediately resolve cases of housing rights violations, such as forced evictions and the forced expulsion of minority groups.

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Abbotsford Spreads Chicken Manure In City To Rid Itself Of The Homeless

Published in Friday June 7th, 2013 In In the media

City of Abbotsford employees have spread chicken manure over land within city limits used as a camp for the homeless. According to advocate for homeless, James Breckenridge, this is but the latest in a series of tactics used by the City in an apparent effort to keep the homeless moving.

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Once Unsafe, Rio’s Shantytowns See Rapid Gentrification

Published in Friday June 7th, 2013 In In the media

(Português) The locals are being priced out of the market. Rents have gone up, and those who can’t afford to pay are leaving the neighborhood to other, more dangerous favelas. The residents are not being allowed to enjoy the new security. All the new restaurants and hotels are for the foreigners — not for the locals. Hear the story here.

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The Death and Life of Chicago

Published in Tuesday June 4th, 2013 In In the media

On a 100-degree day last summer, on Chicago’s southernmost edge, Willie Fleming, who goes by J. R. (“It stands for Just Righteousness”), crept up to an abandoned ranch house shrouded in overgrown weeds. The overwhelmingly poor and black neighborhood sits beside a 150-acre, 1,500-unit public-housing complex and is about as far — literally and figuratively — from the Loop as you can get and still be in Chicago. Nearly a quarter of the homes in the area had been empty for at least two years.

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Turkey’s building boom unrest conceals fear of corruption

Published in Monday June 3rd, 2013 In In the media

The protests triggered in Turkey by plans to redevelop a park into a shopping mall at first seem an unlikely cause for public anger. In reality, the demonstrations over Taksim Square’s Gezi Park go to the very heart of Turkey’s modern discontents.

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Deadly Storms in Oklahoma Bring Flooding and More Tornadoes

Published in Monday June 3rd, 2013 In In the media

Twelve days after a tornado killed 24 people and destroyed hundreds of homes, this battered city and its surrounding suburbs awoke Saturday morning to the aftermath of Round 2. A storm on Friday set off tornadoes and severe flooding, causing widespread damage around the region and claiming at least nine victims, including two children.

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Migration is expulsion by another name in world of foreign land deals

Published in Wednesday May 29th, 2013 In In the media

Though the acquisition of land by foreign governments and firms is a centuries old process in much of the world, we can detect specific phases in these long and diverse histories.

Slum upgrade: Experts call for more stakeholders participation

Published in Monday May 27th, 2013 In In the media

Urban renewal or slum upgrade has for sometime been a major preoccupation of the Lagos State Government as part of the process of making the state a mega city of repute.

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