... as Ciutat Meridiana where about 20 percent of apartments are in eviction proceedings. But, as Brenna Bhandar writes, Ciutat Meridiana, like so many other communities, has united to fight evictions and reform Spain’s punitive mortgage laws. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Spain...

...Gendarmes at the Spean Ches eviction in 2007 appear in this photograph published by the local human rights organization LICADHO. The U.S. Embassy later cleared on-scene commanders from this and other evictions to receive U.S. training. LICADHO Gendarmes at the Spean Ches eviction in 2007 appear...

... to decide how land is used under the pretext of providing for “the public good.” The provisions have been a green light for officials to undertake development plans as they see fit. Though the Chinese government has claimed that forced evictions and demolitions are on the wane, the U.N. Committee...

... control of the nation in 1975. The continuing lack of such titles makes it easier for a corrupt government to evict people whose legal rights are difficult to prove even if they’ve lived and worked the lands for decades. Since 2007, almost 30,000 families have been forced from their homes, relocated...

..., a Lendu who had spent the war in a nearby village, came to evict Ngona from the land he has occupied for a decade. Ngona is willing to move—he has repeatedly asked his chief in Tsupukidogo if he can reoccupy his prewar lands. But the Lendu chief has denied him permission to return, proclaiming...

...Abdul Hameed’s family of eight is afraid they will be evicted from the Channi Himmat settlement in Jammu. ROHINI MOHAN Abdul Hameed’s family of eight is afraid they will be evicted from the Channi Himmat settlement in Jammu. / ROHINI MOHAN ...

...A demonstrator protests the eviction of residents and shopkeepers in Wanstead, east London, in 1994. The buildings were set to be demolished to make way for a road. MATTHEW SMITH A demonstrator protests the eviction of residents and shopkeepers in Wanstead, east London, in 1994. The buildings...

... to the farmers and implore the government to protect them. In February 2013, the U.N. Working Group on Mercenaries visited the area, and said it was “profoundly disturbed at the alleged involvement of private security guards in the killing, disappearance, forced eviction, and even sexual violence to which...

... VENEZUELA A kid covers his face as the National Guard evicts his family. The government said the space was needed to expand Caracas’ main...

....” For weeks, Father Antonio used his own cash to keep this father of a hungry child away from crime. A few months ago, the man found a temporary job. “It's been a tough winter,” the priest explains. “People can't get enough to eat. The worst is seeing kids evicted because their parents can no longer pay...

... people might return to their former homes, some might be evicted, but the world, hopefully, would be more equal. In one way or the other, all of us are immigrants, having come from somewhere else— even staying in the same place, one may find that things can change so much that you become a kind...

.... WINTER 2017 / 2018 71 PORTFOLIO A Water Protector stands in front of a burning structure during the eviction of the camps. Oceti Sakowin Camp, North Dakota. February 2017. starting parachuting in. ‹ey would come for a light and dark, and as I worked, what took shape weekend...

... health services have warned that, with social security funds drying up, they will have to evict their patients into the streets or pass them on to a state health system that is already collapsing from inefficiency, lack of funds, and an overworked staff. In October, the country’s private clinics, which...

... communities. Geographically, this zone included the entire Naqab and Beersheba regions, extending from the Jordanian border in the north to the Gaza Strip in the west. In the south, the Bedouins faced different challenges: Many were evicted from their lands and forced to live as internally displaced peoples...

..., the University of Chicago religion professor Wendy Doniger. In the spring of 2016, he publicly advocated for graduate students at JNU when they asserted their right to dissent against government policies and found themselves evicted from their hostels, prohibited from continuing their doctoral research programs...

... to U.S. sanctions against foreign companies able to prevent Saakashvili from forcibly that provide precisely such help. The threat evicting the pro-Russian leader of the Geor­ had little to do with policy: Iran has not WORLD POLICY JOURNAL • WINTER 2005/06...

... in that first half-century of modern Arab statehood, only twice (in Sudan both times) did popular street rebellions drive leaders out of office; numerous other leaders were evicted by in-house coups by military officers but not through mass populist uprisings. Most citizens in most Arab societies saw their well...