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Forced evictions worsen the already dire lot of earthquake homeless in Haiti

Published in Wednesday April 24th, 2013 In Social movement news

Forced evictions in Haiti are worsening the already desperate situation of thousands of people still living in displacement camps more than three years after the devastating earthquake of January 2010, Amnesty International said as it launched the report ‘Nowhere to go’: Forced evictions in Haiti’s camps for displaced people.

Nowhere to go: Forced evictions in Haiti’s displacement camps

Published in Wednesday April 24th, 2013

Three years after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, tens of thousands of people are still living in insecure and inadequate shelters. This report shows how Haiti’s post-quake reconstruction is failing to protect and fulfil the right to adequate housing. Amnesty International has documented a pattern of forced evictions of internally displaced families, which has involved the mass removals without notice.

‘We’ll throw you all out’ – Forced eviction threat for Haiti earthquake victims

Published in Wednesday April 24th, 2013 In Social movement news

Purported landowners use threats and intimidation to force people onto the street. Usually they have not initiated a judicial process to seek a legal eviction, and often they can’t even prove they have the legal title to the land they claim to own. In many cases, local police, judicial and municipal authorities are also involved in forced evictions or are present when threats are made. One thing they all have in common is the incapacity of central government authorities to protect displaced people from illegal eviction. Impunity of perpetrators remain blatant.

Tens of thousands face eviction from Haiti camps, according to Amnesty

Published in Tuesday April 23rd, 2013 In In the media

Rights group Amnesty International has collected dozens of testimonies from Haitians who have been kicked out of makeshift camps set up by those left homeless by the 2010 earthquake.

Defining communities in Colombia: the Afro-descendant communities of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó and communal land rights

Published in Tuesday April 9th, 2013 In Social movement news

Once seen as antipathetic to the individual rights focus of international human rights law, “third generation” and collective rights have – despite lingering controversy – been widely accepted as a fundamental element of the indivisible human rights framework. Driven in particular by the demands of indigenous peoples, national and international law has recognised and protected rights to communal land titles, rights to language, religious practices, specialised education and protection of cultural heritage, and many other rights which are associated with the existence of distinct socio-cultural groups within the boundaries of the wider state.

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Check our special newsletter on the Security of Tenure Project – Newsletter #33

Published in Thursday April 4th, 2013

In our special newsletter, the Special Rapporteur publicizes the security of tenure report presented to the Human Rights Council in March, as well as the activities scheduled for this semester.

Mourning Argentina struggles with flood aftermath

Published in Thursday April 4th, 2013 In In the media

Argentina has been mourning the dead after heavy flash floods. Two days after the initial flooding, rescuers continued their search for missing people.

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The repression increases against people affected by dams in the Amazon

Published in Thursday April 4th, 2013 In Social movement news

The contradictions caused by the construction of large dam in the Amazon region have been sharpening recently. The Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) and indigenous and riverside organisations are denouncing the human rights violations caused by these works. And the response from private companies and the government is increasing repression.

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Security of tenure: collaborate with the debate! Send us documents, articles, reports, information about practices for recognition and promotion of security of tenure for urban poor in your country!

Published in Monday April 1st, 2013

This questionnaire is designed primarily to obtain information for the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing’s ongoing study on security of tenure for urban poor and the most vulnerable, including questions related to informal settlements.

Rapporteur promotes consultations on security of tenure on May

Published in Monday April 1st, 2013 In News on the Rapporteurs

In May, the Rapporteur will conduct two consultations as part of the security of tenure project – one on the 11 in Quito (Ecuador) and another on the 27 and 28 in Johannesburg (South Africa).