Megafarms linked to Russia's political elite boom, fuelling fears for smallholders
Russia's largest landowners control an area the size of Belgium after expanding to increase domestic production of foods on banned imports lists.
Tokyo urged to stop using cheap timber in centrepiece Olympic stadium
"Our wish is that this petition be accepted by Japan and that they stop importing timber from Sarawak that encroaches the land of the Penan and indigenous people"
Tokyo's wooden Olympic stadium using timber linked to rights abuses, charities say
"To use Shing Yang timber products is to deprive the vulnerable Indigenous Penan and Iban peoples of their customary rights, livelihoods, and cultural practices"
Post-Brexit vote plan to demolish 1,300 London flats is a 2 bln pound "gamble" - residents
Residents from Haringey borough said the redevelopment represents the largest single transfer of local government land to the private sector in Britain
Residents say one dead, shacks razed as Lagos defies court ban on slum eviction
"When they started entering structures they just looked inside, and lit the structure on fire"
England's housing needs for homeless at breaking point, report says
A lack of affordable homes, government funding cuts and welfare restrictions pushed up England's homeless population by 6 percent over the last year to 58,000 people
London social housing residents urge rewrite of "worse than useless" development plans
"The mayor's estate guidance draft ... doesn't offer a way for tenants to have a real say in the futures of their estates" - Sian Berry, London Assembly member for the Green Party
FEATURE-In the London towers that vanished from the map, residents fight to stay on
Life has become a nightmare, say apartment owners, after they were deleted from official records and local government leaders 'trashed' their buildings
Scandinavian banks fund Borneo rainforest abuses - campaigners
Seven banks have backed mining projects and palm oil plantations that caused rapid rainforest destruction and a human rights "crisis"
UK law that forces landlords to check passports increases racism - charity
Report says 51 percent of landlords said they would be less likely to rent to a foreign national under UK's Right to Rent scheme