Mobilisation and agenda

National Day of Action for ICCPR

Published in Friday September 20th, 2013 In Social movement news

This Day of Action is all about the ICCPR – International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – a tool that we have underutilized for far too long. The ICCPR is a human rights treaty that was drafted by the United Nations (UN) and that the U.S. Government (along with 166 other countries) signed and accepted as law in 1992. Since then, that same government has done little to let us – their people – know about the rights they pledged to protect under this treaty.

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October 2013: World Zero Evictions Days

Published in Friday September 20th, 2013 In Mobilisation and agenda

The first step of joint agenda established by the World Assembly of Inhabitants (WSF Tunis 2013) 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.

European Parliament hearing about the criminalization of homelessness

Published in Thursday September 19th, 2013 In Social movement news

“Criminalizing and penalizing homeless people for carrying out life-sustaining activities in public because there is nowhere to go is a problem across the EU” said Rina Beers, President of FEANTSA today at the European Parliament in Brussels.

Unequal Cities and the Political Economy of Housing – XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology

Published in Monday July 29th, 2013 In News

ISA Congress: Facing an Unequal World July 13-19, 2014, Yokohama (Japan) Unequal Cities and the Political Economy of Housing Inequality in the housing market is not necessarily a result of inequality in other markets, e.g. the labour market, but forms of inequality are often related and have an important territorial expression. Inequality in cities is […]

Subscribe the appeal: Piquiá wants to live!

Published in Friday June 28th, 2013 In Mobilisation and agenda

We ask your help: click here to e-mail to the Mayor of Açailândia, to the Government and the General Attorney of Justice of Maranhão, northeastern Brazil, to say no more pollution killing the 1,100 residents of Piquiá de Baixo, no more excuses to delay their resettlement!

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Dream home resource center – Hammer Museum

Published in Tuesday June 25th, 2013 In Mobilisation and agenda

Dream Home Resource Center, Olga Koumoundouros’s most recent investigation of home ownership, addresses the immateriality of real estate transactions and the shift from home as emblem of the American dream to house as commodity.

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Istanbulites to IOC: “Don’t Select Our City”

Published in Tuesday June 25th, 2013 In Social movement news

This is a call from two human rights organizations, Urban Movements Istanbul / HIC (Habitat International Coalition) and People’s Houses on behalf the citizens of Istanbul from all ages, social and political backgrounds, associations, ideologies and beliefs. The ideals of Olympic Games rest on excellence, respect and friendship, with respect for development, peace and the environment. We are sending you reports of international NGOs and organizations and some of the hundreds of videos documenting the disproportionate use of force by the police. This is material evidence of the brutality with which the government violates the ideals of the Olympics.

As Brazil Marks One-Year Countdown to 2014 World Cup, Thousands Cope with Forced Evictions

Published in Thursday June 13th, 2013 In Mobilisation and agenda

170,000 Brazilians are at risk of losing—or have already lost—their homes in forced evictions tied to preparations for the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. While mega-events such as the World Cup are a driver of forced evictions, the phenomenon is not limited to Brazil or to major sporting events: an estimated 15 million people across the globe are forcibly uprooted from their homes each year as a result of on-going physical abuse, threats and intimidation and often without consultation and compensation.

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Housing Rehab for Consolidated Squatter Settlements in Latin America’s First Suburbs: Policy Approaches

Published in Wednesday May 22nd, 2013 In Mobilisation and agenda

The Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Project invites you to a policy discussion forum on Thursday, May 30, 2013, at 9:00 – 11:45 am – 4th Floor Conference Room, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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400 families forcibly evicted in Kenya

Published in Friday May 17th, 2013 In Social movement news

Some 400 Kenyan families were forcibly evicted on 10 May from an informal settlement in the capital, Nairobi. They are homeless and in urgent need of food, water and shelter. Police, who were providing security for the eviction, used live ammunition and teargas.