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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.

Claims of illegal eviction in Uganda haunt German firm

Published in Monday August 26th, 2013 In In the media

In 2001, more than 4,000 people were evicted from land in Uganda after it had been acquired by a German coffee firm on a 99 year lease. The company insists the deal was above board, but an NGO is now raising doubts.

Homeless Tour Gives Glimpse of Berlin’s Underbelly

Published in Thursday August 8th, 2013 In In the media

This tour was developed by Carsten Voss in collaboration with the association querstadtein. Its goal is to bring people who live on the margins of society into contact with the mainstream public by offering homeless people an opportunity to give guided tours of their neighborhoods — the parks and streets where they meet their friends, and the organizations and outreach centers that provide them with support.

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Resident Groups Combat Spike in Evictions in Germany

Published in Friday April 26th, 2013 In In the media

Skyrocketing rents in many German cities are pitting residents against real estate developers and landlords. The recent death of an elderly woman forced out of her apartment has emboldened alliances to protest evictions with sit-ins.

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German municipalities demand affordable housing

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

The association representing 3,400 German cities and towns has called on the federal government to hand over more former Cold War military sites such as barracks to provide affordable housing and tackle rising prices.

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Germany’s statement on the security of tenure report

Published in Thursday March 7th, 2013

Read Germany’s statement regarding the presentation given by the Special Rapporteur about her thematic and mission reports on March 4th, during the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council.

German investment to provide Roma with jobs and housing

Published in Thursday July 5th, 2012 In In the media

July 5, 2012 BELGRADE – The Roma National Minority Council and a consortium of German companies represented by Jugoagent KTS and Roma Investment Group signed an MoU on Thursday The memorandum of understanding should provide employment opportunities and solve the housing problems of part of the Roma population in the country. Under the document, the […]

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A refuge for the Roma in Berlin, Germany

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

June 30, 2012   It seems unlikely but Berlin, the very city where the genocide of the Roma (Gypsy) peoples was planned 70 years ago, has become the city where they now find refuge. In the suburb of Neukoelln, a large complex of run-down apartments is being done up to become comfortable homes for more […]

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Germany’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 […]

Riots after house eviction in Berlin

Published in Tuesday February 8th, 2011 In In the media

Reproduzindo matéria divulgada por correio eletrônico

Numa operação militar digna de filmes de Hollywood, cerca de 2.500 policiais
foram mobilizados ontem (2 de fevereiro) em Berlim para a remoção do squatter
Liebig 14, um dos últimos da cidade. A polícia usou diversos objetos, como
machados e marretas, para quebrar a porta de entrada do Liebig 14, localizado
em Friedrichshain, em Berlim Oriental.

Today one of the oldest squats in the center of Berlin was evicted. The
squat was squatted in the 1990s because of many empty buildings at that
time and the missing affordable living space in Berlin.

In the house people of the age of 18-40, including two babies, tried to
live in an alternative way. They shared their money equal to their income
and participated a lot in the left scene from Berlin – and where connected
all over Europe. Often people from other countries visited the squat. Also
the people from the squat where active in their neighborhood in social
projects.

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