Human Rights Committee recognizes Extra-Territorial Obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
The Human Rights Committee recently issued its Concluding Observations, or findings, related to the periodic report of Germany. Germany appeared before the Human Rights
By: Beh Lih Yi
Date: September 30th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Slum dwellers in Indonesia have launched a landmark legal case to challenge a decades-old law which has been used to forcibly remove thousands of families, amid a wave of evictions
By: Deodatus Mfugale
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
ANALYSISIn September 2015, a group comprising eight non-governmental organisations that deal with land rights and extractives resources advocacy submitted to the Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic
By: Timothy A. Wise, Food Tank
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
By: Correspondent
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: Zim Daily
ZIMBABWE – Zimbabwe’s government has reportedly sent eviction notices to at least 90 people who benefited from the country’s controversial land reform programme.
The affected beneficiaries – “flourishing” tobacco and crops farmers –
By: MacDonald Dzirutwe
Date: March 22nd 2016
Source: Euronews
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s plan to win back international funding by paying compensation to white farmers forced off their land faces a major snag: the black farmers expected to stump up the cash say they don’t have it.
By: Socorro Leite, National Director, Habitat Brazil
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
This year, Brazil is hosting the world’s biggest sports event – the Summer Olympic Games. While athletes arrive in Rio to compete for medals and global audiences prepare to watch the
By: Alisa Tang
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Activists have called on U.S. President Barack Obama to press Laos on its human rights record on issues such as illegal land concessions and forced evictions, when he visits the
Filipino Fishers Living in a Scenic Cove Fight to Save Their Homes From Demolition and Land Grabbing
By: Karlo Mikhail Mongaya
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: Global Voices
By: Kizito Makoye
Date: January 25th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - "Free education but nowhere to sleep!" reads a poster scrawled in Swahili in Dar es Salaam's Jangwani slum, summing up the plight of hundreds of residents forcibly
By: Sally Hayden
Date: October 24th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
CALAIS, France (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deep in the Calais "Jungle" migrant camp in northern France, hundreds of Oromo Ethiopians set up their own school.
By: Sanitsuda Ekachai
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Bangkok Post