Displacement, community and rights to housing are issues that affect us all in Quito.
Throughout the eight year occupation and chaotic years since, sectarian war and widespread displacement of communities have ravaged the country.
Vali Nasr, of Tufts, called the internal displacement of communities in Iraq a form of "ethnic cleansing".
Atrocities in Northern Uganda including murders, mutilations, rape, abductions, lootings and displacement of communities have all been attributed to the LRA.
Linked to deforestation, habitat loss, fires and the displacement of communities, the production of palm oil has raised major concerns to date.
A labour-intensive monocrop that once relied on slavery, it has more recently encompassed child labour, land-grabs and the displacement of communities (pdf).
"The British government's position against displacement of communities in Area C is clear," wrote Alastair McPhail, the British consulate-general in Jerusalem last month.
Re "Blighted Areas Are Revived as Crime Rate Falls in Cities" (front page, May 29): The issue is not a drop in crime but a displacement of communities.
For example, the case of the displacement of communities of Afro-Colombians in the Jiguamiandó and Curvaradó river basins (Case 1 in Table 2) is often cited in the literature reporting the negative effects of the palm oil expansion in Colombia [19, 65, 66].
Stopping Gentrification and Displacement: Many communities resist development because the limited amount of new housing built in those lower- and middle-income neighborhoods is overwhelmingly luxury units.
