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Police beat reporters at land eviction in Vietnam

Published in Wednesday May 9th, 2012 In In the media

Police and security guards beat two Vietnamese state radio reporters who were watching them evict farmers from their land to make way for a privately built housing development. More than 1,000 villagers were overpowered by some 3,000 police and militiamen, many of them in full riot gear, during the eviction on April 24 in Hung Yen province, according to witnesses.

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Refugees in their homeland (Nigeria)

Published in Tuesday May 8th, 2012 In Social movement news

On the orders of the Nigerian Army, heavily-armed soldiers and mobile police officers invaded Gosa 1 village and demolished homes, businesses, churches, mosques, schools, farmlands, crops, shrines and important cultural relics belonging to indigenous Gbagyi farmers and low-income residents. The demolitions were carried out without prior notice, payment of compensation or provision of alternate shelter, and left thousands homeless, including children, the youth, women and the aged people who had lived on the land from time immemorial.

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Landlords ‘evicting tenants’ to make Olympic profit

Published in Tuesday May 8th, 2012 In In the media

Tenants in east London are being evicted from their homes as landlords attempt to cash in on the Olympics, BBC News has learned. The housing charity Shelter says it has seen more evidence of landlords acting unscrupulously and evicting people illegally. One estate agent said properties typically rented for £350 per week were being marketed […]

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New housing program for refugees settles its first family in Lakewood (USA)

Published in Monday May 7th, 2012 In In the media

May 5, 2012 A pilot program operated by two nonprofit groups to place refugees in vacant, foreclosed homes has settled its first family into a renovated house in Lakewood. Bhutanese natives Ruk and Leela Rai, along with their 3-year-old son, Anish, moved into an updated century home on Hopkins Avenue last week. Two years ago, […]

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Uganda: World Bank Under Attack for Aiding Land Grabs

Published in Monday May 7th, 2012 In In the media

May 6, 2012 The World Bank has come under attack after a new report has exposed how commercial projects funded by the Bank are causing poverty, human rights violations in Uganda sparking a barrage of criticisms. Ironically, the report entitled “Land, life and justice: How land grabbing in Uganda is affecting the environment, livelihoods and […]

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Radical reforms considered to help fund public housing (Australia)

Published in Monday May 7th, 2012 In In the media

May 7, 2012 PUBLIC housing may be financed by securities, bonds or private public partnerships under a radical overhaul being considered by the state. Victoria’s $17.8 billion public housing portfolio is falling deeper into operational debt and will have exhausted all its cash reserves by the end of this year. In response, the state government […]

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Syrian refugees face housing shortage (Lebanon)

Published in Monday May 7th, 2012 In In the media

May 5, 2012 There are now so many Syrian refugees in Lebanon that they are running out of places to stay. Aid workers have warned for months that housing levels for refugees are quickly reaching a saturation point for the tens of thousands of refugees here, and it appears that the country has reached that […]

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UN official criticizes Chile’s housing reconstruction process

Published in Monday May 7th, 2012 In In the media

During a weeklong visit to Chile prompted by several local organizations, Raquel Rolnik, the special rapporteur on housing with the United Nations, criticized the role of subsidies in Chile’s reconstruction process after the 2010 earthquake. “The reconstruction following the 2010 earthquake has been an efficient and notable process, but it ought to rely upon a mechanism apart from subsidies,” Rolnik told the press.

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Facing eviction, Abuela chains herself to bank (Spain)

Published in Monday May 7th, 2012 In News

May 5, 2012 A 76-year-old grandmother who lost her home to debt chained herself to the gate of Spain’s central bank here Monday and asked Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to address the “injustices” affecting many people in the Iberian nation. Angeles Belmonte was evicted five months ago from her home in the southern town of […]

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Wives of military police face eviction from city barracks (Uganda)

Published in Friday May 4th, 2012 In In the media

Families of military police officers living in Makindye Military Police Barracks have up to today to vacate the facility or face eviction, the UPDF has said. At least 185 families of the officers will be affected, with wives, children and relatives sent out, following an ultimatum issued on Tuesday.

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