Chile

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.

Check the responses received from countries for the security of tenure questionnaire

Published in Monday August 19th, 2013

Read the responses sent by governments to the Questionnaire on Security of Tenure. They will inform the Special Rapporteur’s final report to the HRC and other related guidance.

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Chile’s social housing policy: creating socioeconomic ghettos?

Published in Wednesday May 8th, 2013 In In the media

Bajos de Mena — a housing project built on the periphery of Santiago between 1994-2004 — is currently the focus of a recently announced multimillion dollar government project to regenerate deprived areas. Despite having a population of more than 120,000, Bajos de Mena lacks a police or fire station, schools, good transportation links or even a supermarket. Housing vulnerable families from across the region, it has also become a hotbed of deprivation, social problems and crime. To understand how a project, which cost millions to build less than 20 years ago, once again requires such a huge investment, it is necessary to examine Chile’s unique social housing policy.

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Threats to right to food and ancestral sovereignty over territory

Published in Monday March 18th, 2013 In In the media

Indigenous Communities and Organizations for the Ancestral Forest, made up of about twenty Mapuche groups, presented on March 11 a declaration directed to the United Nations Special Rapporteurs Oliver De Schutter, about the right to food, and Raquel Rolnik, about the right to housing, denouncing the damaging effects of the Chilean forest policy, which endangers their right to food and ancestral sovereignty over their territory.

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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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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.

UN official criticizes Chile’s housing reconstruction process

Published in Monday May 7th, 2012 In In the media

During a weeklong visit to Chile prompted by several local organizations, Raquel Rolnik, the special rapporteur on housing with the United Nations, criticized the role of subsidies in Chile’s reconstruction process after the 2010 earthquake. “The reconstruction following the 2010 earthquake has been an efficient and notable process, but it ought to rely upon a mechanism apart from subsidies,” Rolnik told the press.

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Rapporteur visits Chile from April 26th to May 3rd

Published in Monday April 2nd, 2012 In News on the Rapporteurs

(Português) A Relatora Raquel Rolnik visitará o Chile, de 26 de abril a 3 de maio, a convite de organizações da sociedade civil chilena, para debater o processo de reconstrução após a ocorrência de desastres naturais.

Chile’s statement on the report “Women and Adequate Housing”

Published in Tuesday March 13th, 2012

On March 6th, 2012, the UN special rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, presented at the 19th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, the reports concerning her 2011 missions to Argentina and Algeria, as well as her thematic report on women and their right to adequate housing. After this […]