Global Agenda for Protection of Refugee Women & Children
The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children actively participated in the Global Consultations on International Protection and the development of the Agenda for Protection (AfP). We view the AfP as an important tool to advance the protection and empowerment of refugee women and children. The following is a brief synopsis of some of the Women’s Commission’s ongoing activities aimed at addressing the key protection concerns of displaced women and children.
Grants Permit to Arab Bedouin Family to Build Home on their Privately-Owned Land in the Galilee
After Seven-Year Legal Struggle, Land and Planning Appeals in its Concluding Observations, the CEDAW Committee emphasized 14 areas of concern and recommendations regarding Israel’s violation of the basic rights of Palestinian women citizens of Israel and Palestinian women living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs), which are safeguarded under the CEDAW.
UN report on forced evictions in Zimbabwe
You can access the UN Habitat’s report on the forced evictions in Zimbabwe on the HLRN Website at: http://www.hlrn.org/documents/Tibaijuka%20report.pdf
Lobbying and advocacy for habitat and tenants rules implementation in Togo
Since 2002, the "Habitat Division" of the Association Nationale des Consommateurs et de l'Environnement du Togo (ANCE/TOGO), in English "National Consumers and Environmental Association of Togo", has launched its programme "sustainable habitat" which aimed to promote habitat and tenants rules implementation in Togo.
Crisis of Large Numbers of Internally Displaced Children Due to Conflict in Nepal
Between 10,000 and 15,000 children expected to be displaced into urban areas in 2005
Namibia moves to protect widows rights
The Namibian government aims to introduce a new inheritance bill to protect the rights of widows and children, who are often dispossessed of land and homesteads.
Polycentric World Social Forum 2006
The sixth edition of the World Social Forum will be polycentric, which means that it will be decentralized, taking place in different parts of the world, in January 2006. Up to now, three cities will host the 6th WSF: Bamako (Mali-Africa), Caracas (Venezuela – Americas) and Karachi (Pakistan-Asia) in .
World Habitat Day 2005: The Millennium Development Goals and the City
“Slums represent the worst of urban poverty and inequality.
Yet the world has the resources, know-how and power to each the target established in the Millennium Declaration."
-UN Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan.
UN Habitat paper for World Habitat Day 2005 and report of 2004 activities, including the call for nominations for 2005 Habitat Scroll of Honour Award.
Satellite images of an area of Harare before and after Operation Murambatsvina
These images show the town of Harare, Zimbabwe and the effects of President Robert Mugabe’s “clean-up campaign” that involved the razing of shantytowns to root out crime. Imagery collected April 16 and June 4, 2005 at Kubatana: the NGO Network Alliance Project - an online community for Zimbabwean activists.
1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 Project
Millions of women are engaged daily in working for a better future. This innitiative presents 1000 women's stories and struggles.
The Land is for Farmers
In addition to increasing poverty among farmers, during the past period, the Egyptian government traded in lands owned to the agrarian reform corporation, as a continuance of implementing the markets liberating policies in the field of agriculture. Who will protect farmers rights in the safety of their lands?
New High-level Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor
A top down process "on behalf of the poor" where the poor are excluded.
Madeline Albright and Hernando de Soto as co-chairs. !!