The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has worsened after floods and purposeful destruction has taken its toll in recent months, writes Vanessa Amaral-Rogers. The eight year blockade by Israel and conflict with Egypt has already hit Palestinian families hard but now Gaza is at even greater risk as Egypt diverts seawater into life-line tunnels.
… mixed with sewage water ruined their houses' furniture including beds, closets, kitchens … water mixed with sewage ruined their houses' furniture including beds, closets, kitchens. …
The opposition of Ecuador's Shuar People to large scale mining and hydroelectric development in their ancestral forests has triggered a full-scale military occupation of their lands in the Amazon cloud forest, writes Jake Ling, accompanied by a surge in state-sponsored murder and violence - for which Chinese and Canadian mining companies must share responsibility.
… the Shuar Federation's office-turning over furniture and carrying away computers. …
Unilever denies some female employees at its Rainforest Alliance-certified tea plantation in Kenya are subjected to sexual harassment. But Dutch research outfit SOMO paints a very different picture. Verity Largo and Andrew Wasley report
… here, in fact no electricity at all; the only furniture is three hand made wooden chairs and … a wade of old bed sheets. X has very little furniture... besides 3 old wooden chairs and a …
Civil war in Casamance, a forested area of Senegal, has been fought for 30 years, while an illegal timber trade has boomed amid the insecurity. Louise Hunt reports on how community forestry is bringing peace to the region - and restoring life to the forests.
… Gambia. Truckloads of hardwoods prized for furniture, such as teak and mahogany, are sold …
Revenues obtained from the often illegal extraction and supply of commodities such as timber and diamonds are directly bankrolling corrupt regimes and armed insurgency groups, and fund the purchase of weapons and other contraband goods that perpetuate cycles of conflict.
… much of it for the manufacture of outdoor furniture and products for the marine industry …
Stemming Sub-Saharan Africa’s demand for a devastating energy source will require a colossal shift from business-as-usual, principally through mass adoption of solar energy.
… households dependent on charcoal to burn furniture, cow dung and even their own homes …
Long a feature of British urban life, domestic squatting has now been criminalised, writes Almudena Serpis. But suddenly two social centres have come to life in a squatted bank in Brighton, and a long abandoned pub in London, reviving the rebellious spirit of the squatting movement, and promulgating a radical anti-austerity message that evokes the struggles in Greece, Spain and beyond.
… building, from the cleaning materials to the furniture, had been donated or found in the …