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Homeless Families in Spain Squatting After Eviction

Published in Monday October 15th, 2012 In In the media

October 11, 2012 Protest groups in Spain have helped families that were kicked out of their homes by banks find shelter in repossessed, empty apartment buildings. Police moved in quickly in most cases, but in Seville about 30 families are going on six months of illegal occupation. Fifty-four-year old Mercedes Lladanosa showed us around the […]

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Serious and systematic violations of land and housing rights continue in Cambodia

Published in Monday October 15th, 2012 In Social movement news

October 12, 2012 The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) released today a seven-page briefing note entitled “Cambodia: A Mounting Human Rights Crisis”. The briefing note warns that the violations of land and housing rights are “on-going, serious and systematic,” and that the use of judicial and extra-judicial means to harass, intimidate and criminalise activists […]

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Report on financialization of housing will be presented in NY

Published in Saturday October 13th, 2012 In News

On October 26th, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right of Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, will present her report on the financialization of housing at City University of New York (CUNY), in an event promoted by academics, activists and members of social organizations and the civil society. You can watch the debate by live internet streaming.

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Public consultation: “Security of tenure: cornerstone of the right to adequate housing”, October 24th

Published in Saturday October 13th, 2012 In News on the Rapporteurs

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has the honour to invite States, intergovernmental organizations, national human rights institutions, non-governmental organizations and other interested stakeholders to attend a public consultation convened by the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Ms. Raquel Rolnik, on “Security of tenure: cornerstone of the right to adequate housing”. October 24, 2012, from 10am to 1pm, at the Palais des Nations (Geneva).

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600,000 Persons Displaced in Kogi State, in Nigeria

Published in Wednesday October 10th, 2012 In In the media

October 9, 2012 Over 600, 000 people were displaced by the flood disaster, which ravaged nine local government areas of the Kogi State. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Yabaji Bologi, who disclosed this to journalists yesterday in Lokoja, said according to the latest report released by the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) about 344 communities […]

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500 Families Homeless in Land Row in Kenya

Published in Wednesday October 10th, 2012 In In the media

October 8, 2012 More than 500 families from Laini Moja in Kitale spent the night in the cold after their houses were demolished by alleged Matisi Cooperative Society members. It is alleged that the Matisi Cooperative Society claim that the families settled in their land and hired street boys and goons who demolished their shelters. […]

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53,000 Displaced and 11 Communities Submerged in Delta, Nigeria

Published in Tuesday October 9th, 2012 In In the media

October 08, 2012 No fewer than 53,000 residents of 11 communities in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State, have been rendered homeless following the flooding of their homes as a result of the overflow of the River Niger. Their farmlands were also submerged. Ivrogbor, Umeh, Uzere, Ehwen, Edherie and Igbide, in Isoko South Local […]

Floods Affect Tens of Thousands in East Africa

Published in Tuesday October 9th, 2012 In In the media

October 8, 2012 Above-average seasonal rains in parts of the East and Horn of Africa have affected tens of thousands of people, displacing families and restricting access to many in need, say humanitarian officials. The rains, coming ahead of a possible El Niño event, have prompted fears of further flooding. According to a Famine Early […]

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October 2012, World Zero Evictions Days – for the Right to Housing. All Together!

Published in Monday October 8th, 2012 In Social movement news

September 26, 2012 The first step of joint agenda established established by the Urban Social Forum is on October, the World Zero Evictions Days – for the Right to Housing, in order to unify the Global Campaign for the right to housing and to land. The central focus is the struggle against expulsions, evictions, the […]

World Bank Rejects Call to Halt Land Deals in Africa

Published in Monday October 8th, 2012 In In the media

October 5, 2012 The World Bank has rejected a call to suspend its involvement in large scale agricultural land acquisition following the release of a major report by the international aid agency Oxfam on the negative impact of international land speculation in developing countries. “We share the concerns Oxfam raised in their report,” the bank […]