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.

People Before Profit: New Video on Global Forced Evictions

WITNESS has supported forced evictions campaigns for more than 10 years. During this time, these projects have amplified the voices of communities across the world. For World Habitat Day we are bringing many of these voices together for the first time to tell another story.

Tokludede Düşleri / Dreams of Tokludede

Tokludede district in Istanbul, Turkey, is suffering from urban regeneration projects that are maintained across different parts of city. The area is one of the most important part of the city because of its historical and architectural background. People living here are exposed to forced eviction and they have no economic power to move their houses.

Brazil residents face evictions ahead of 2016 Olympics

As many as 170,000 Brazilians are at risk of losing – or have already lost – their homes to make room for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics and the 2014 FIFA World Cup. These forced evictions disregard human rights, leaving homes destroyed and lives disrupted.

The Making of an Urban Occupation: Manoel Congo

Manoel Congo is comprised of 42 families and 120 residents, the vast majority of whom have lived there since occupation in 2007. Many, but not all, are MNLM activists. Watch the video below to find out more about community life in this occupation:

From homes to prison cells: a story of land grabbing in Cambodia

Watch the video about the impact of land grabbing on poor people in Cambodia, exposing the risks faced by housing rights activists.

Movie addresses the evictions in South Africa

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

Colombia evictions: residents bury themselves in protest

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.

Documentary: Sukulele, transformation for whom?

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.

Stop forced evictions in Africa

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.

Video: ‘Istanbul is Naked’

‘ 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.