Megaeventos

Brazil’s indigenous people fear Maracana stadium eviction

Published in Monday May 28th, 2012 In In the media

(Português) Indígenas que vivem num prédio pertencente ao governo federal estão ameaçados pelas obras de reforma do Maracanã para as obras da Copa do Mundo de 2014. Até agora, não receberam notificação para sair, mas eles suspeitam que serão forçados a deixar o local.

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Housing Finance for the poor is the subject of the next thematic report – Newsletter #21

Published in Monday May 21st, 2012


From July 5th to 13th, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Raquel Rolnik will have an official visit to Rwanda. Currently, the Rapporteur is working on the elaboration of a new thematic report, which will focus the ways the finance system has been linked to the housing market in order to provide housing to low-income families.

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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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Athens 2004 Olympics: what happened after the athletes went home?

Published in Tuesday May 15th, 2012 In In the media

As the flame for the London Olympics is kindled in Greece, Helena Smith looks at the legacy of the 2004 Games In the soft Attic light, Athens’s Olympic sports complex does not look like such a bad place. Men and women jog gently under its great steel arches, athletes go in and out of its […]

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Favela do Metrô terrorized through dawn (Brazil)

Published in Thursday May 10th, 2012 In Social movement news

May 9, 2012 RioOnWatch was the first news site to report on the brutal Favela do Metrô eviction back in November 2010. A year and a half later we revisit the scene to see how residents have faired. Slideshow is also available. Two years on from the first announcements that their houses would be cleared to make […]

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Landlords ‘evicting tenants’ to make Olympic profit

Published in Tuesday May 8th, 2012 In In the media

Tenants in east London are being evicted from their homes as landlords attempt to cash in on the Olympics, BBC News has learned. The housing charity Shelter says it has seen more evidence of landlords acting unscrupulously and evicting people illegally. One estate agent said properties typically rented for £350 per week were being marketed […]

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Join the debates about mega-events and about housing finance and the right to adequate housing

Published in Monday April 16th, 2012 In News on the Rapporteurs

This month we inaugurate two new topics to be debated in our virtual platform: one on sports mega-events and another on housing finance and its impacts on the right to adequate housing.

Brazilian Government Warranties for FIFA World Cup 2014

Published in Thursday April 12th, 2012

(Português) O documento assinado por diversos ministérios do Governo Brasileiro em 2007 elenca as diversas garantias que o país se compromete dar à FIFA para assegurar a realização da Copa do Mundo de 2014 conforme as exigência da instituição.

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Group plans to intensify protests against evictions ahead of 2014 World Cup

Published in Monday April 9th, 2012 In News

The Homeless Workers Movement, together with other groups, organized on Wednesday (April 4th) a series of protests across the country in order to draw attention to the problems caused by the 2014 World Cup projects, specially regarding the evictions of “thousands of working families”. The goal is to denounce the removal of families and the creation of laws for the mega events on 2014 and 2016.

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A Missed Opportunity in Rio

Published in Wednesday April 4th, 2012 In In the media

(Português) Rio de Janeiro is preparing to host the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016, and these mega-events give the nation’s elite a chance to speed up whatever strategies were already on their wish lists. In Rio, where real estate interests control the city’s politicians and media, decisions are made on their […]