News tagged with 'land'. Found 3 tagged news.

NCCM files complaint over recent FGM case

Cairo :: Egypt | 24 days ago

Tens of Egyptian Copts demonstrated Wednesday on the steps of the Orthodox Cathedral in Abbasiya over a land dispute involving their church in the town of Meet Neama in the delta region of Qalubiya. The demonstration coincided with Pope Shenouda’s weekly...

Tags: church, land, politics

Anti-wall demonstrations at Nil’in village

Jerusalem :: Israel | 5 months ago

I am an Australian activist living in West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This is an account of my time here Monday, June 9, 2008 8 June, 2008 Nil’in village has become the latest village to begin organising demonstrations against the building...

Tags: israel, land, occupation, Israeli

A people with a land

Tel Aviv :: Israel | 7 months ago

Posted by jesse.rosenfeld

As a wave of settlement expansion continues to wash over the Occupied Territories, the increasingly militant Palestinian-Israeli counter-response was evident at this year's week of Land Day demonstrations

Tags: land, Palestine, tel aviv, jaffa, settlement, occupation, israeli, occupied territories, intifada, gentrification, demolition, ethnic cleansing, popular committee