América do Sul e Central

Rio favela residents say they’re being forced out by the Olympic

Published in Tuesday August 21st, 2012

Vila Autodromo is a long way from the stereotype of a Brazilian favela — there are no drug traffickers and no troops. The 3000 residents who have lived here for the last 5O years don’t want to go anywhere — but the city of Rio has other ideas. They say the area – which has no sewage system or school – is a slum, and have promised the inhabitants better housing if they move out to make way for the 2016 Olympic Park.

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Vila Autódromo, in Rio de Janeiro, Resists With Plano Popular

Published in Friday August 17th, 2012 In In the media

With residents of several favela communities in Rio de Janeiro facing resettlement and others having already been removed from their homes to make way for 2016 Olympic infrastructure development, the longstanding community of Vila Autódromo is pushing back with their Plano Popular da Vila Autódromo.

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Guatemalan military evicts dozens squatters camp

Published in Thursday August 16th, 2012 In In the media

August 15, 2012 The Guatemalan Defense Ministry says it has evicted about 100 people from government property and has bulldozed their makeshift homes. Ministry spokesman Col. Erick Escobedo said 12 families initially “invaded” the land in January and the encampment had grown to 32 homes. Escobedo said Wednesday that the country’s National Coordinator for Disaster […]

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Brazil residents face evictions ahead of 2016 Olympics

Published in Tuesday August 14th, 2012 In In the media

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.

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Rio 2016: The race is on to revamp Brazil’s party city

Published in Tuesday August 14th, 2012 In In the media

August 13, 2012 The curtain has fallen on the London Olympics, so all eyes are now turning to the next host city – Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has a huge task to get the venues ready, as the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville reports from the city. At the beach’s edge in Barra da Tijuca in Rio […]

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As Brazil receives Olympic flag, forced evictions taint the handover

Published in Monday August 13th, 2012 In Social movement news

August 12, 2012 Demonstrations are taking place in Brazil this week to call attention to the human rights violations happening in Rio de Janeiro as a result of the 2016 Olympics Today, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Count Jacques Rogge will present the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Eduardo Paes, with the Olympic flag in a […]

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In the Name of the Future, Rio Is Destroying Its Past

Published in Monday August 13th, 2012 In In the media

August 12, 2012 By THERESA WILLIAMSON and MAURÍCIO HORA THE London Olympics concluded Sunday, but the battle over the next games has just begun in Rio, where protests against illegal evictions of some of the city’s poorest residents are spreading. Indeed, the Rio Olympics are poised to increase inequality in a city already famous for it. Last month, […]

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Rio 2016: The race is on to revamp Brazil’s party city

Published in Monday August 13th, 2012 In In the media

(Português) 13 August 2012 The curtain has fallen on the London Olympics, so all eyes are now turning to the next host city – Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has a huge task to get the venues ready, as the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville reports from the city. At the beach’s edge in Barra da Tijuca in […]

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Haiti – Reconstruction : Presentation of the Strategic Development Plan of Haiti to ECOSOC

Published in Tuesday August 7th, 2012 In In the media

August 6, 2012 The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), that held end of July in New York, its annual substantive session for 2012, discussed on the situation in Haiti, with Ms. Josépha Raymond Gauthier, the Haitian Minister of Planning and External Cooperation. During this meeting, Ms. Gauthier presented the progress made in the […]

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Chile: several children injured after violent eviction

Published in Tuesday July 31st, 2012 In Social movement news

On 23 July, police officers (carabineros) reportedly moved in to evict a group of Mapuche Indigenous people who a day earlier had occupied a plot of agricultural land in Ercilla – 600 km south of Santiago – as part of an ongoing protest to reclaim their traditional territory in Chile’s Araucanía region.

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