Items related to rural violence
Steven Viney 16 Sep 2012
On 11September, Egypt celebrated Farmer’s Day. But the dire straits in which many farmers find themselves call...
Steven Viney 20 Jun 2012
After months of campaigning to establish Egypt’s first grassroots farmers union, as well as coordinating with...
Steven Viney 19 Jun 2011
Over the past twenty years, the issue of land dispossession has been of dire concern to Egypt’s rural population...
Steven Viney 08 Jun 2011
More than a million farmers and workers in Egypt have lost land, been displaced and ill-treated by the state since 1992...
Steven Viney 12 May 2011
This is the first part of an exclusive interview with Dr Ray Bush, Professor of African Studies and Development...