HIC participation at CHR 62
We will be represented at the 62nd session of the Commission on Human Rights and the first session of the new Human Rights Council
Nigeria: Forced evictions in Lagos make thousands homeless
Hundreds of Nigerians are still sleeping out in the open nearly nine months after bulldozers and armed police arrived in the Makoko community of Lagos, demolishing homes, churches, a mosque and a medical clinic. After three days of destruction, the community was obliterated, leaving about 3,000 residents -- many already destitute -- homeless.
UN official on tsunami assessment mission in Indonesia and India
More than a year after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, a senior United Nations official is travelling in Indonesia and India this week to assess the recovery effort and look at what's being done to provide shelter for the victims displaced by the disaster.
German Parliament stops Housing Support for Young Unemployed
Germany.- Federal Parliament reduces welfare incomes for young unemployed adults and decides not to give subsidies for rental housing if they leave parents' housholds without agreement of the local labor welfare offices. By this change of the “Hartz IV” legislation many young unemployed adults will have no legal chance to found their own household.
Trade, a Means toward Human Well-being (Not an End in Itself)
Statement of Civil Society Organizations in the Arab States on the Occasion of the “Cairo WTO at 10 Conference”
Social movements’ declaration on water at the WSF Caracas 2006
Building on the work of meetings of previous years, social movements involved in the struggles for the rights to water and against its commoditisation from across the world met at the World Social Forum in Caracas. They succeeded in pooling the work of various workshops and built a common platform which examined regional issues within a global understanding of water.
The open space of Vancouver: reviewing 1976, challenging 2006. (*)
Comments on Katja Baltzer’s paper of 29 March 2006:
By John FC Turner
Thirty Years and Beyond
by Han van Putten, May 2006
Mexican Organisations for the Right to Water
The below signing organizations have decided to work on a shared basis in the context imposed by the IV World Water Forum to be held on March 2006, an event that articulates the interests of huge multinational enterprises and multilateral banks. On such occasion, we want to put on the water policy debate a social, cultural and spiritual perspective, in order to take into account the human right to water and its democratic, sustainable and fair management as a vital element, a view that inspires the following statement:
Sixth World Parlamentarian Forum
Parliamentarians representing the five continents, presents the following declaration at the end of the sessions of 26 and 27 January 2006 in Caracas, Venezuela. The declaration includes references to land issues.
Human Rights groups demand urgent adoption of measures to address homelessness in Delhi
As we find ourselves in the midst of a particularly severe winter – January 8, 2006 witnessed the lowest temperature recorded in Delhi since 1935 – the need for decisive action to ease the suffering of Delhi’s homeless has never been more acute. This sense of urgency, tragically, has remained conspicuously absent from the response of the city’s relevant municipal authorities.
Istanbul: ‘Self-service’ production of built environment: End of the model ?
Orhan Esen deals with recent processes which replace the specific Istanbul model of informal “SELF SERVICE URBANIZATION” by neo-liberal, globalized and formalized investments. For better understanding Orhan gives a brief sketch on main periods and elements of the urbanization processes since 1945.