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Rapporteur’s Website Reaches Readers in Over 130 Countries

Published in Tuesday May 17th, 2011 In News

Since its debuting, in mid last year, the site of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing has been visited by more and more people.

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Rio World Cup demolitions leave favela families trapped in ghost town

Published in Tuesday May 3rd, 2011 In In the media

From the roof of his home in the Favela do Metrô, Eomar Freitas enjoys one of the best views in town. Look south and you see the Christ the Redeemer statue towering over Rio’s mountains. To the north stands the green and pink headquarters of Mangueira, the city’s best-loved samba school.

And in between, one of the world’s top sporting venues, the blue and grey Maracanã stadium, which will host the final of the 2014 football World Cup.

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PRESS RELEASE – Brazil off-course for World Cup and Olympics

Published in Tuesday April 26th, 2011 In News

GENEVA (26 April 2011) – As Brazil prepares to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council on the right to adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, said Tuesday she has received many allegations concerning displacement and evictions potentially leading to violations of human rights.

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PRESS RELEASE – Right to housing in Argentina: violations despite State commitment

Published in Wednesday April 20th, 2011 In News

BUENOS AIRES-GENEVA: “I commend the Government’s decision of 2003 to consider housing a responsibility of the State, but I’m very concerned about violent evictions taking place in various regions of the country and the lack of more comprehensive promotion of adequate housing in Argentina, “said UN Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik, as she concluded her official mission to the country (13-21 April 2011).

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Newsletter # 9

Published in Monday April 11th, 2011 In In the media

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Raquel Rolnik has just completed her mission to Argentina, where she has been between April 13th and 21st. After visiting the country, where she met with representatives of the government, civil society organizations and citizens, she presented her preliminary findings. The final report will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2012.

PRESS RELEASE – Water and Sanitation: A human right for all, even slum-dwellers and the homeless

Published in Tuesday March 22nd, 2011 In News

GENEVA (22 March 2011) – On the occasion of World Water Day, 22 March 2011, the UN Independent Expert on water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, the Independent Expert on extreme poverty, Magdalena Sepúlveda, and the Special Rapporteur on housing, Ms. Raquel Rolnik, issued the following joint statement:

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Canada needs a national housing strategy; Support Bill C-304

Published in Tuesday March 22nd, 2011 In News

“I’ll never forget the small, remote communities I visited where I saw people in jail, only because they were homeless and on the street during brutal winter nights.” – Libby Davies, Member of Parliament, Vancouver East.

Ottawa (7 Mar. 2011) – The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) has a strong and proud history of campaigning on important equality and human rights issues. So, I am very proud that the National Union has committed its support to help ensure that my private member’s Bill C-304, An act to ensure secure, adequate, accessible and affordable housing for Canadians, is passed in the House of Commons. I like to call it, a Housing Bill of Rights.

Read the Oral Statement Made by the Rapporteur in the Conference on Roma and Right to Housing

Published in Thursday February 17th, 2011 In News

Statement by Ms. Raquel Rolnik, Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Conference on Improving Access to Housing for Roma: Good Local Practices, Funding and Legislation.
Prague: 24 February 2011

Riots after house eviction in Berlin

Published in Tuesday February 8th, 2011 In In the media

Reproduzindo matéria divulgada por correio eletrônico

Numa operação militar digna de filmes de Hollywood, cerca de 2.500 policiais
foram mobilizados ontem (2 de fevereiro) em Berlim para a remoção do squatter
Liebig 14, um dos últimos da cidade. A polícia usou diversos objetos, como
machados e marretas, para quebrar a porta de entrada do Liebig 14, localizado
em Friedrichshain, em Berlim Oriental.

Today one of the oldest squats in the center of Berlin was evicted. The
squat was squatted in the 1990s because of many empty buildings at that
time and the missing affordable living space in Berlin.

In the house people of the age of 18-40, including two babies, tried to
live in an alternative way. They shared their money equal to their income
and participated a lot in the left scene from Berlin – and where connected
all over Europe. Often people from other countries visited the squat. Also
the people from the squat where active in their neighborhood in social
projects.

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Free webinar: “On the Edge: Improving HPRP Implementation”

Published in Thursday February 3rd, 2011 In News

On Wednesday, February 9, at 2:00 p.m. EST, the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty will host a webinar to discuss topics explored in “On the Edge: How HUD Can Improve the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program.” The report offers an in-depth analysis of the program, assessing its effectiveness and making recommendations for future HUD homelessness prevention efforts. It is based on a survey of 121 service providers one year after HPRP funds were made available.

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