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 | New York Times: Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover
August 9th, 2010
Five years ago, the leaders of this sun-scorched, wind-swept nation made a bet: To reduce Portugal’s dependence on imported fossil fuels, they embarked on an array of ambitious renewable energy projects — primarily harnessing the country’s wind and hydropower, but also its sunlight and ocean waves. |
 | BBC: Banished from Delhi for Commonwealth Games
In anticipation of the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Delhi, officials plan to evict both animals and people - including some 60,000 pavement squatters and 800,000 slum dwellers - from the city. |
 | Displacing the Displaced: Results of Current Policy in Haiti
Today, the international community has again fallen silent in the face of the forced removal, and the second displacement, of Haitians living in Port-au-Prince. As the camera bulbs dim and Haiti falls back into media obscurity, thousands of Haitians are victims of forced displacement and threats of violence. |
 | Inside Burma: Junta Forcibly Acquires Relocation Consent
New Delhi (Mizzima) Villagers in Tan Hte village near the hydropower project site at the confluence of May Kha and May Likha, tributaries of Irrawaddy River, the main waterway and lifeline of Burma, have been forced to give their consent to relocate by signing on a consent paper by Myitkyina township officials, a Kachin social group said. |
 | Endorois Win Landmark Land Judgement Against Kenyan Government
The African Union has condemned the expulsion of the Endorois people from their land in Kenya, and has found the Kenyan government guilty of violating the rights of the country's indigenous Endorois community, by evicting them from their lands to make way for a wildlife reserve. |
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