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India Makes Way for G20 Summit By Displacing Homeless People

Parva Dubey March 31, 2023 Parva Dubey

Activists and the affected said current demolitions are part of preparations for the Group of Twenty (G20) Summit that the capital city of New Delhi is preparing to host in September. Past G20 summits had been met with protests from both anti-globalization movements and groups opposing the displacement of society’s poorest to make way for a summit venue. Parva Dubey reports from Delhi.

Residents of the Palestinian neighborhood, Jabal al-Mukaber, protest proposed demolition of their homes to make way for an expansion of a highway that would connect Israeli settler neighborhoods / credit: Jessica Buxbaum

Hundreds of Palestinian Homes May Be Demolished to Expand Highway Connecting Israeli Settler Colonies

Jessica Buxbaum March 28, 2022 Jessica Buxbaum

For the fifth week in a row, residents of Jabal al-Mukaber, a Palestinian neighborhood in Occupied East Jerusalem, demonstrated outside city hall against a municipal plan to demolish their homes to expand the American Road, a highway largely viewed as a bypass serving illegal Israeli settlements throughout Jerusalem, reports Jessica Buxbaum.