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Voices of the mission: Morro da Providência, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

Published in Thursday September 15th, 2011

In the run up to Brazil’s World Cup 2014 and Olympics 2016, thousands of people are being forcefully evicted from their homes to make room for office buildings, stadiums and roads. Video activists are making a stand, producing documentaries to raise awareness, inform and empower communities at risk of eviction. Watch below a video produced about the Morro da Providência, favela of Rio de Janeiro[…]

Voices of the mission: Restinga, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

Published in Thursday September 15th, 2011

In the run up to Brazil’s World Cup 2014 and Olympics 2016, thousands of people are being forcefully evicted from their homes to make room for office buildings, stadiums and roads. Video activists are making a stand, producing documentaries to raise awareness, inform and empower communities at risk of eviction. Watch below a video produced about the Restinga, favela of Rio de Janeiro […]

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Brazil: Road to World Cup and Olympics Paved with Forced Evictions

Published in Thursday September 15th, 2011

In the run up to Brazil’s World Cup 2014 and Olympics 2016, thousands of people are being forcefully evicted from their homes to make room for office buildings, stadiums and roads. Video activists are making a stand, producing documentaries to raise awareness, inform and empower communities at risk of eviction. Watch below one of the videos produced:
 

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Brazil: Road to World Cup and Olympics Paved with Forced Evictions

Published in Tuesday September 6th, 2011 In In the media


Juliana Ricón Parra

September 6th, 2011

In the run up to Brazil’s World Cup 2014 and Olympics 2016, thousands
of people are being forcefully evicted from their homes to make room for
office buildings, stadiums and roads. Video activists are making a stand,
producing documentaries to raise awareness, inform and empower communities
at risk of eviction.

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Russians evicted from homes for Olympics

Published in Sunday September 4th, 2011 In News

Maria Antonova, SOCHI, Russia (AFP)

(Sochi, RUS) – Sochi native Vladimir Tkachenko needed a decade to build a house on his modest salary. He then had 11 hours to move all belongings out of the way for the bulldozers clearing the way for a new road.

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Newsletter #11

Published in Saturday June 11th, 2011 In In the media

The virtual platform of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing is already running. This new tool will be used initially for developing the project “Women and the Right to Land and Housing.” People worldwide can now register and contribute to the thematic report and the guide and leaflet which will be produced on the subject. See also news and pictures of the working visit of the Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik to Haiti earlier this month and her agenda to the next period.

Rio World Cup demolitions leave favela families trapped in ghost town

Published in Tuesday May 3rd, 2011 In In the media

From the roof of his home in the Favela do Metrô, Eomar Freitas enjoys one of the best views in town. Look south and you see the Christ the Redeemer statue towering over Rio’s mountains. To the north stands the green and pink headquarters of Mangueira, the city’s best-loved samba school.

And in between, one of the world’s top sporting venues, the blue and grey Maracanã stadium, which will host the final of the 2014 football World Cup.

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Rio World Cup demolitions leave favela families trapped in ghost town

Published in Tuesday May 3rd, 2011

From the roof of his home in the Favela do Metrô, Eomar Freitas enjoys
one of the best views in town. Look south and you see the Christ the Redeemer
statue towering over Rio’s mountains. To the north stands the green and
pink headquarters of Mangueira, the city’s best-loved samba school.

And in between, one of the world’s top sporting venues, the blue and grey
Maracanã stadium, which will host the final of the 2014 football World
Cup.

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PRESS RELEASE – Brazil off-course for World Cup and Olympics

Published in Tuesday April 26th, 2011 In News

GENEVA (26 April 2011) – As Brazil prepares to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council on the right to adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, said Tuesday she has received many allegations concerning displacement and evictions potentially leading to violations of human rights.

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Newsletter # 9

Published in Monday April 11th, 2011 In In the media

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Raquel Rolnik has just completed her mission to Argentina, where she has been between April 13th and 21st. After visiting the country, where she met with representatives of the government, civil society organizations and citizens, she presented her preliminary findings. The final report will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2012.