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Guatemala: Holding the World Bank Accountable for Human Rights Violations

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

May 09, 2012 The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) together with Rights Action and the International Human Rights Clinic at Western New England University School of Law has filed a Petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in an attempt to hold the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) […]

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Nepal: Concern over the condition of the elderly, women and children rendered homeless by evictions

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

May 10, 2012 The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns the excessive use of force and the lack of due process in the eviction of the community living in the squatter settlements in Thapathali, Kathmandu on the banks of the Bagmati River on 8 May 2012. Over 248 houses, including a school, were destroyed in the […]

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Threatened forced eviction of the the Dobri Jeliazkov community (Bulgaria)

Published in Wednesday May 9th, 2012 In Social movement news

May 08, 2012 Action is urgently needed to prevent the forced eviction of several families and to restore access to drinking water. The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), along with its Bulgarian partner Equal Opportunities Association (EOA), represent the Dobri Jeliazkov community in Sofia, Bulgaria in their struggle to prevent the […]

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Police beat reporters at land eviction in Vietnam

Published in Wednesday May 9th, 2012 In In the media

Police and security guards beat two Vietnamese state radio reporters who were watching them evict farmers from their land to make way for a privately built housing development. More than 1,000 villagers were overpowered by some 3,000 police and militiamen, many of them in full riot gear, during the eviction on April 24 in Hung Yen province, according to witnesses.

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General Comment 7

Published in Tuesday May 8th, 2012

Having considered a significant number of reports of forced evictions in recent years, including instances in which it has determined that the obligations of States parties were being violated, the Committee is now in a position to seek to provide further clarification as to the implications of such practices in terms of the obligations contained in the Covenant.

Refugees in their homeland (Nigeria)

Published in Tuesday May 8th, 2012 In Social movement news

On the orders of the Nigerian Army, heavily-armed soldiers and mobile police officers invaded Gosa 1 village and demolished homes, businesses, churches, mosques, schools, farmlands, crops, shrines and important cultural relics belonging to indigenous Gbagyi farmers and low-income residents. The demolitions were carried out without prior notice, payment of compensation or provision of alternate shelter, and left thousands homeless, including children, the youth, women and the aged people who had lived on the land from time immemorial.

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Uganda: World Bank Under Attack for Aiding Land Grabs

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

May 6, 2012 The World Bank has come under attack after a new report has exposed how commercial projects funded by the Bank are causing poverty, human rights violations in Uganda sparking a barrage of criticisms. Ironically, the report entitled “Land, life and justice: How land grabbing in Uganda is affecting the environment, livelihoods and […]

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Wives of military police face eviction from city barracks (Uganda)

Published in Friday May 4th, 2012 In In the media

Families of military police officers living in Makindye Military Police Barracks have up to today to vacate the facility or face eviction, the UPDF has said. At least 185 families of the officers will be affected, with wives, children and relatives sent out, following an ultimatum issued on Tuesday.

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Tensions high in Port Bell as another eviction looms (Uganda)

Published in Wednesday May 2nd, 2012 In In the media

April 30, 2012 It is now three months since the murderous eviction that went wrong at Port Bell in Luzira, a Kampala suburb. The ground has, however, been set for a similarly hot-tempered eviction exercise of occupants on land belonging to Uganda Railways Corporation (URC), 100 metres away from the spot where Santos Komakech, a […]

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Kolkata Slum dwellers’ eviction a crime: Binayak Sen (India)

Published in Wednesday May 2nd, 2012 In In the media

April 29, 2012 Describing the eviction of people from slums in Nonadanga in the eastern part of the city as a “tragedy and great crime”, human rights activist Binayak Sen Sunday accused the West Bengal government of being inhuman. “It (eviction) is a great tragedy and a great crime committed. It is really inhumane on […]

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