Audio and video

Here you find audio and video files on the right to housing worldwide. If you or your organisation have articles in these formats that you would like to promote, contact the Rapporteur.

Movie addresses the evictions in South Africa

Published in Thursday June 14th, 2012

Watch below the trailer of Dear Mandela, a movie about the mass evictions realized in South Africa’s shantytowns.

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Right to housing initiative in Egypt

Published in Monday June 4th, 2012

The film bellow is the first of a series of shorts that document the problems and challenges faced by the majority of Egyptians in their built environment. These include hazards such as collapsing buildings, pollution and floods, as well as deprivation from basic infrastructure such as water, energy and public transport. The series also links such problems with the state’s policies that are directly or indirectly linked to the built environment, stating a set of demands to pressure policy change that falls in line with the right to housing.

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Colombia evictions: residents bury themselves in protest

Published in Wednesday May 30th, 2012

Residents from the northern Colombian town of Aguachica have protested against evictions by burying themselves in the ground. The news report can be fully watched here.

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Documentary: Sukulele, transformation for whom?

Published in Monday May 28th, 2012

The documentary shows the eviction of the Sukulele neighborhood in Istanbul due to “urban transformation”. Most of the residents were Roma and they were relocated to another area, not compatible with their budget and their life condition.

Brazil’s indigenous people fear Maracana stadium eviction

Published in Monday May 28th, 2012 In In the media

(Português) Indígenas que vivem num prédio pertencente ao governo federal estão ameaçados pelas obras de reforma do Maracanã para as obras da Copa do Mundo de 2014. Até agora, não receberam notificação para sair, mas eles suspeitam que serão forçados a deixar o local.

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Stop forced evictions in Africa

Published in Wednesday May 16th, 2012 In Social movement news

Across Africa hundreds of thousands of people each year are left homeless when they are forcibly evicted from their homes by the authorities. In most cases evictions are conducted without any due process, consultation, adequate notice or compensation. Amnesty International has documented mass forced evictions in Nairobi, Accra, N’Djamena, Port Harcourt, Cairo and Harare in addition to other cities and countries across the continent.


Amnesty International has documented mass forced evictions in Nairobi, Accra, N’Djamena, Port Harcourt, Cairo and Harare in addition to other cities and countries across the continent. They are launching a campaign to help stop them.

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Homelessness Becomes A Crime In Hungary

Published in Tuesday April 10th, 2012 In In the media

Hungary’s new anti-vagrancy laws — the toughest in Europe — now mean that homeless people sleeping on the street can face police fines or even the possibility of jail time. Advocacy and human-rights groups are alarmed by the new efforts to crack down on and effectively criminalize homelessness, where the ranks of the needy have increased during the country’s dire financial crisis. Click here to listen to the story.

China’s ghost cities and malls

Published in Tuesday March 20th, 2012

A documentary made by the Australian television shows the real state market in China and its problems. On one hand, there are huge building complexes waiting to be occupied. On the other, a big part of the population that cannot afford these apartments.

Presentation to the UN Human Rights Council

Published in Thursday March 8th, 2012

Presentation of mission’s reports and report on Women and Right to Adequate Housing

Published in Tuesday March 6th, 2012

The Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik presented today (March 6th) her report on Women and the Right to Adequate Housing to the UN Human Rights Council. In the video below you can watch her presentation. It begins in the minut 21st.