Angola

Countries and organizations address the reports presented at the Human Rights Council

Published in Wednesday March 19th, 2014 In News on the Rapporteurs

Read the statements of the 32 countries and 6 organizations that addressed the reports’ presentation.

Rapporteur sends nine communications during the 2nd semester of 2013

Published in Friday March 14th, 2014 In Dialogue with countries

During the second semester of 2013, Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik sent nine communications and received seven country responses. Find out more!

Angola’s poor people hit hard by urbanisation crackdown in Luanda

Published in Friday May 10th, 2013 In In the media

The Angolan government says it is waging “a sustained war against chaotic urbanisation”, but this appears to have become a war against poor people. The most extreme examples are in Luanda, a city bursting at the seams. Around half a million people lived in Angola’s capital in 1975, when the Portuguese moved out. Now, with many forced into the city to escape the country’s 27-year civil war, 5 million jostle for space, of whom three-quarters live in informal settlements with little or no documentation or land tenure.

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Campaign against demolitions in Lubango, Angola

Published in Tuesday June 26th, 2012 In Social movement news

June 25, 2012 The Housing and Land Rights Network of Habitat International Coalition has learned from the Constructing Communities Association (Associação Construindo Comunidades (ACC), HIC-HLRN Association and other sources in Angola, of current and further forced evictions in the “Arco-Iris” (Rainbow) Zone of Lubango City, in Angola’s southwestern Huíla Province. From 12 May up to 12 […]

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Communications Report (2007)

Published in Friday January 26th, 2007 In Reports

This report has the summary of communications sent and replies received from following Governments: Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Guinea Equatorial, India, Indonesia, Israel, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Russian Federation, The Sudan, Turkey, Zimbabwe, and other actors like United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. In the context of his mandate, the […]

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