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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.

Basta con l’accaparramento delle terre. La terra per chi la lavora!

Il 17 aprile è la giornata internazionale delle lotte contadine, che ricorda il massacro di 19 contadini che lottavano per terra e giustizia in Brasile, nel 1996. Ogni anno si celebra questo giorno in tutto il mondo, a difesa dei contadini e delle contadine che lottano per i loro diritti. Denuncia l’accaparramento delle terre! Ovunque tui sia, compila il poster con il nome dei locali accaparratori di terra e inviaci una foto di quello che state facendo come protesta.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.

Lottiamo e costruiamo in solidarietà la Via Urbana e Comunitaria per abitare bene il nostro pianeta

Buon 2012, è giunta l'ora: dei senza tetto, mal alloggiati e sfrattati, di essere capaci di opporsi e vincere contro i colpi di frusta del neoliberismo, grazie alla solidarietà e alle lotte di resistenza e di alternativa ... (----> Continua nel 2013!)

2012 Housing Europe Review

The CECODHAS Housing Europe Observatory has carried out a second review of the social, co-operative and public housing sectors in the 27 EU member states, the first one having been completed in 2007.

Indignati per il diritto alla casa!

Non a caso numerose iniziative globali convergono in questo ottobre caldo: tra le altre, la Settimana globale di azione contro il debito e le istituzioni finanziarie internazionali, il Grido degli Esclusi e, giustamente, la tappa del 15, uniti per un cambiamento globale. Come del resto non è un caso che, nello stesso momento e in tutti i continenti, per la prima volta le organizzazioni e le reti di abitanti sono mobilitate all'unisono per le Giornate Mondiali per il Diritto all'Abitare.

Week of Global Action Against Debt and IFIs

Break the chains of debt! The system of debt continues to devastate the lives of people around the world. People in the South face the daily impacts and consequences of the financial indebtedness of their countries, which far from having been "relieved" is growing in step with the crisis and the pursuit of extraordinary profits by the most concentrated forms of capital. They continue also to bear the burden of the unpaid historical, social, ecological, and climate debts which are increasing as well to the rhythm of false solutions to the global crisis.

La Via Campesina: llamamiento a Durban

El movimiento internacional campesino La Vía Campesina y su miembro el Movimiento de los Sin Tierra de Sudáfrica (Landless Peoples Movement, LPM) se están movilizando para la XVII Conferencia de las Partes (COP17) de la Convención sobre el Cambio Climático de las Naciones Unidas, que tendrá lugar en Durban (Sudáfrica) del 28 de noviembre al 9 de diciembre de 2011.

Disasters: New risk index helps identify vulnerability

A family works to navigate the flooded streets of Cotabato City, Mindanao [19 June 2011] © David Swanson/IRIN A new disaster risk index launched by the UN University Institute for Environment and Human Security in Bonn could help donors and aid organizations better understand why some countries are more at risk of calamity than others, and shape their responses when disaster strikes.

Methods to claim your rights

This guide focuses on violations of housing, land and food rights by both the private and public sector in rural and urban areas It is based on stakeholders’ experiences with various practices, cultures and backgrounds such as the Philippine Human Rights Information Center (PhilRights) in the Philippines, the Integrated Rural Development Society (IRDS) in India, Federação of Órgãos para Assistência Social e Educacional (FASE) in Brazil, the Réseau National des Habitants du Cameroun (RNHC, National Network of People Living in Cameroon), Juristes-Solidarités in France, Foundation for Educational Innovations in Asia (Fedina) in India and members of the Malian and Senegalese ESC rights plateforms.