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.
‘ Istanbul is Naked’ is a video about people expulsed from some sites in Istabul. The video focus on Sulukule (demolished&evacuated),Tarlabasi (recently evacuated,waiting to be demolished),Tozkoparan (under threat of forced evictions) and TOKI ( Mass Housing) Blocks at Tasoluk (relocation site, showing the ‘myth’ of relocation).
İstanbul Çıplak – Istanbul Is Naked from Kara Bayrak on Vimeo.
More Than a Roof is a grassroots documentary following Raquel Rolnik, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, on her first official mission to the United States in 2009. The film highlights the testimonies of individuals directly impacted by the severe housing and economic crises we are facing in cities and towns across the country.
More Than a Roof from NESRI on Vimeo.
The documentary tells the stories of various residents’ campaigns to hold the housing executive and the department for social development to account on everyday issues like the right to a warm and comfortable home, the right to a safe environment for families, the right to security and dignity and the right to participate in the decisions that affect their lives.
Papering Over The Cracks – A documentary by the Seven Towers Residents Group from Participation and the Practice o on Vimeo.
In the run up to Brazil’s World Cup 2014 and Olympics 2016, thousands of people are being forcefully evicted from their homes to make room for office buildings, stadiums and roads. Video activists are making a stand, producing documentaries to raise awareness, inform and empower communities at risk of eviction. Watch below a video produced about the Vila Recreio 2, favela of Rio de Janeiro:
In the run up to Brazil’s World Cup 2014 and Olympics 2016, thousands of people are being forcefully evicted from their homes to make room for office buildings, stadiums and roads. Video activists are making a stand, producing documentaries to raise awareness, inform and empower communities at risk of eviction. Watch below a video produced about the Favela do Metrô, favela of Rio de Janeiro[…]
In the run up to Brazil’s World Cup 2014 and Olympics 2016, thousands of people are being forcefully evicted from their homes to make room for office buildings, stadiums and roads. Video activists are making a stand, producing documentaries to raise awareness, inform and empower communities at risk of eviction. Watch below a video produced about the Morro da Providência, favela of Rio de Janeiro[…]
In the run up to Brazil’s World Cup 2014 and Olympics 2016, thousands of people are being forcefully evicted from their homes to make room for office buildings, stadiums and roads. Video activists are making a stand, producing documentaries to raise awareness, inform and empower communities at risk of eviction. Watch below a video produced about the Restinga, favela of Rio de Janeiro […]
In the run up to Brazil’s World Cup 2014 and Olympics 2016, thousands of people are being forcefully evicted from their homes to make room for office buildings, stadiums and roads. Video activists are making a stand, producing documentaries to raise awareness, inform and empower communities at risk of eviction. Watch below one of the videos produced:
There are 100.000 empty properties in the Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires – it is to say that no inhabitants are living in there. Since 2005 different organizations – local and international ones – have been presenting this problem wherever it corresponds, it is to say not only to the “Senado de la Nación” (National Senate Parliament) but also to the local and national authorities as well. Read the entire texte here.
Video of eviction in Cambodia: Shukaku destroy homes at Boeung Kak Lake
Shukaku destroy homes at Boeung Kak Lake from Little Ease Films on Vimeo.