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Mumbai: Where Being Poor Is a Crime

Faiza Khan | Posted 29.12.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Faiza Ahmad Khan, Simpreet Singh, Al Jazeera English, India, Mumbai, Slum, Land Grab, Poverty, Slum Clearance, Health, UK Politics News
Faiza Khan

The state government considers homes built after 1995 on public land illegal and thus feels no obligation to provide access to basic rights - housing, water or sanitation. Every few months bulldozers show up to remind them that they shouldn't be there. That's the story of a million people in Bombay. Where being poor is a crime.

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Biofuels: Putting Developing Countries on the Road to Greater Hardship

Melanie Ward | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Fuel, House of Commons, Sun Biofuels, Africa, Biofuels, Motorist, Renewable Energy, Eu, Land Grab, Actionaid, Hunger, Climate Change, Friends of the Earth, Environment, Petrol, Tanzania, Department for Transport, UK Environment, UK Politics News
Melanie Ward

I am writing this blog from Tanzania where, on Friday I met some villagers from Kisarawe, which is a three-hour drive north west of Dar es Salaam. The villagers have been affected by a massive landgrab by a British company called Sun Biofuels.

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