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2012 World debt figures
To facilitate our understanding of the complexity of the current crisis, Damien Millet, Eric Toussaint, and Daniel Munevar (CADTM) present a range of statistics on the debt and its repercussions.
International civil organizations claim for a lasting solution to sovereign debt
Eurodad, Afrodad, Latindadd, Jubilee USA and the Third World Network (TWN) joined hands to call in a joint statement for a lasting solution to the sovereign debt crisis and the establishment of a fair and independent international debt workout mechanism.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing' Report on impact of housing finance policies
The Rapporteur, Raquel Rolnik, will present her new thematic report this year at the 67th session of the General Assembly. In this report, the Rapporteur analyses the ruling paradigm of housing policies that focus on housing finance as the main means of promoting homeownership.
The civil society: the UN-Habitat’s “Manifesto for Cities” does not represent our opinions and strategies
We publish the official report of the Round Table at f the World Urban Forum in Naples, which challenges the propaganda that claims a pretended unanimous acceptance for ‘Manifesto for the Cities’, revealing, rather, an unprecedented breakaway from? the UN-Habitat’s handling of the issue that contradicts the ‘human rights’ approach which should be part of its very DNA. This is a new challenge to defend democracy for the civil society.
“Fewer housing opportunities for the world’s poor” – UN expert on housing
GENEVA (1st
October 2012) – “Opportunities for whom?” asked the United Nations Special Rapporteur on housing, Raquel Rolnik, when assessing this year’s World Habitat Day theme ‘Changing cities, building opportunities.’
Towards an agenda of convergence of migrants and inhabitants
Encounters and co-ordinations at RIO+20
A part of the activities of encounters and co-ordinations at Rio+20 were the steps taken towards the convergence of the movements of migrants and of inhabitants, who have common problems and aspirations in as far as migrants are a part of the inhabitants occupying any given space.
Report: How can development actors engage in internal displacement?
IDMC's latest report highlights how internal displacement is not just an humanitarian, human rights or peace-building challenge, but also a development one. There are profound financial implications for people, families and communities affected by internal displacement. By examining the relationships between development action and human rights, this report identifies some key potential areas of intervention by development actors.
GRAIN releases data set with over 400 global land grabs
Today GRAIN is making available a new data set documenting 416 recent, large-scale land grabs by foreign investors for the production of food crops. The cases cover nearly 35 million hectares of land in 66 countries.
Stop Land Grabbing – land to the tillers!
April 17 is the International Day of Peasant Struggle, commemorating the massacre of 19 peasants struggling for land and justice in Brazil in 1996. Every year on that day actions take place around the world in defence of peasants and small-scale farmers struggling for their rights.Denounce land grabbing!
Wherever you are, fill in this poster with the name of your local land grabbers and send us a picture of what you are doing to protest with this poster.E-mail: viacampesina@viacampesina.org
The cancer of sub-standard housing is spreading round the world
A slum in Nairobi, Kenia. (Photo: khym54/Flickr/CC)
In spite of international commitments, 1,600 million people all over the world are living in deficient housing, and in the developing South 828 million lack adequate water and sanitation services. In the Social Watch Report 2012, experts warn that these problems are aggravated by inequalities between and within countries, privatization, the disappearance of communal property, migration, forced eviction, land speculation and climate change.