América do Sul e Central

Panama: village of the damned

Published in Monday July 2nd, 2012 In In the media

April 14th, 2012 One indigenous tribe is engaged in a life and death struggle against the big business interests flooding their land. Away from its busy capital city and famous canal, Panama is one of the world’s most ecologically diverse nations. Yet huge new hydroelectric dam projects now underway are seeing pristine rivers damned and […]

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Brazil World Cup: Forced Evictions Violate Residents’ Rights

Published in Thursday June 28th, 2012 In In the media

The minidocumentary “We Are The Legacy: The Story of Elisangela” (below) is the first in a series of videos being produced by the human rights organization Witness, in partnership with Brazil’s Comitê Popular Rio Copa e Olimpíadas, to tell the story of people affected by forced evictions linked directly or indirectly to preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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Rio+20 : “Qu’ils nettoient devant leur porte avant de parler de la planète !”

Published in Friday June 22nd, 2012 In In the media

(Português) (Only in French) Par Nicolas Bourcier (Rio de Janeiro, correspondant) Elle prépare le thé avec les pétales des roses qu’elle a cueillies dans le jardin de sa maison. D’un ton calme, Inalva Mendes Brito évoque les souvenirs de ce passé heureux, ces années 1980, lorsqu’elle est venue ici, à Vila Autodromo, une petite favela située au […]

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Seventeen killed in violent land eviction in Paraguay

Published in Monday June 18th, 2012 In In the media

In Paraguay, an eviction action resulted in 17 deaths. The conflict ocurred in the Canindeuyu district, 240 kilometers from the capital. The local farmers say the State illegally distributed the land during the military rule of Alfredo Stroessner.

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Special Rapporteur visits Fortaleza, Brazil, to discuss impacts of the Soccer World Cup to the right to housing

Published in Sunday June 17th, 2012 In In the media

In June 2012, the Special Rapporteur, Raquel Rolnik, promoted a working visit to Fortaleza, Brazil, regarding the evictions and other violations to the right to housing related to sports megaevents. Fortaleza is one of the host cities to the 2014 Soccer World Cup.
The Rapporteur visited the communities that are going to be affected by the mobility and other construction sites, made to the 2014 Cup. She met with representatives of the State, of the City Council and of the organized civil society movements at the City Chamber.

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Rio+20: It’s time to change perceptions on Rio’s favelas

Published in Monday June 11th, 2012 In Mobilisation and agenda

Since 2004, in partnership with established community organizations, Catalytic Communities has been offering Educational Community Visits to journalists, activists, development researchers, government officials, city planners and architects wanting a deeper and more engaging experience of Rio de Janeiro and its favelas. If you or colleagues plan to be in Rio for the Rio+20 UN Conference […]

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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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Risk of eviction for 300 families within 48 hours in Haiti

Published in Monday May 28th, 2012 In Social movement news
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May 27, 2012 300 residents of Camp Mormon in the municipality of Delmas in Port-au-Prince, risk a forced eviction within 15 days either within 48 hours, have told to Amnesty International delegates the camp residents, recalling that at 3 am on 14 May, approximately 20 men, including local municipal officials, entered the camp and warned […]

Photos of the Special Rapporteur, Raquel Rolnik, working visit to Chile

Published in Wednesday May 16th, 2012 In News on the Rapporteurs

Check the photos of the working visit the Special Raporteur to the Right to Housing, Raquel Rolnik, to Chile, between April 26th and May 3rd.

Favela do Metrô Terrorized through Drawn-out Eviction

Published in Wednesday May 16th, 2012 In In the media

Two years on from the first announcements that their houses would be cleared to make way for World Cup 2014 developments, residents of Favela do Metrô are still living through the brutal, drawn out destruction of their community. A stone’s throw from the world famous Maracanã stadium, Favela do Metrô was founded 33 years ago […]

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