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Undermining development: forced eviction in BangladeshDec 01, 2012IAP's Kate Hoshour highlights the vibrant Phulbari resistance movement fighting to halt an open pit coalmine in northwest Bangladesh in this month's issue of Forced Migration Review: Preventing Displacement.
Violent forced evictions of 30,000 people as homes in Nigeria's Makoko community are demolished Jul 25, 2012One person reported dead and many wounded as the Lagos State demolition squad and heavily armed police and security forces storm Makako, burning down homes and shooting residents to grab waterfront land for affluent developers.
Ethiopia: Pastoralists Forced off Their Land for Sugar PlantationsJun 18, 2012The Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing indigenous pastoral communities in the Lower Omo valley of Ethiopia without adequate consultation or compensation to make way for state-run sugar plantations.
Global coal markets are far riskier than you thinkMay 30, 2012Grassroots opposition and high fuel prices are risks threatening the global coal market and a new era of coal.
  
Bangladesh open-pit coal mine threatens fundamental rights, warn UN experts
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