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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 News


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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Essex University releases a Guide to Legal Observing of Forced Evictions

Published in Monday August 29th, 2011 In News

The Essex Human Rights Clinic of the Essex University has recently released a Guide to Legal Observing of Forced Evictions.Bellow you can read the Introduction section and you can also download the document.

The Essex Human Rights Clinic, part of the Human Rights Centre and School of Law at the University of Essex, was established in 2009 to offer students the opportunity to gain valuable practical experience in promoting and protecting human rights. The Human Rights Clinic emphasises practice as a way of addressing complex human rights issues while meeting the needs and interests of real people.[…]

Guide to Legal Observing of Forced Evictions

Published in Friday August 19th, 2011

This Guide was compiled by Human Rights Clinic students involved in the Dale Farm project inorder to give guidance to legal observers in the UK and around the world regarding best practices for the conduct of legal observation. It provides information on relevant international human rightsnorms and standards, along with monitoring methodologies, to aid legal observers in ensuring thatforced evictions are conducted in accordance with human rights standards

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Evicting rioters’ families from their homes? There’s a horrible logic to it

Published in Tuesday August 16th, 2011 In News

Ponder, for a moment, the second-most unequal country in Europe. Its prime minister, who failed to win an outright majority, heads a government whose cabinet contains several millionaires, and embarks upon an ideologically driven economic policy against almost all international and professional advice. It has just faced its largest strikes for decades. Its lawmakers were recently found fiddling their mortgages en masse. Its press was caught phone tapping hundreds of private citizens and politicians, with little hindrance from the police.

PRESS RELEASE – UK urged to find negotiated settlement to eviction stand-off with 86 Irish Traveller families

Published in Friday August 5th, 2011 In News

GENEVA (5 August 2011) – Two UN human rights experts* in the field of housing and minority issues called on the United Kingdom Government to find a peaceful and appropriate solution, and adequate alternative housing for 86 Irish Traveller families faced with forced eviction from Dale Farm, Essex, before the end of August.

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Stop tourism land grabs in Sri Lanka

Published in Thursday August 4th, 2011 In In the media

An international fact finding mission has just returned from the Kalpitya islands in western Sri Lanka with a disturbing report that many local villages are to be forcibly displaced by a multi-million pound new tourism facility. The Sri Lankan government and large tourism developers are forcibly displacing communities inhabiting the 14 islands of Kalpitiya, destroying livelihoods, threatening food security, and wreaking havoc on the environment.

Video of eviction in Cambodia: Shukaku destroy homes at Boeung Kak Lake

Published in Wednesday August 3rd, 2011

Video of eviction in Cambodia: Shukaku destroy homes at Boeung Kak Lake

Shukaku destroy homes at Boeung Kak Lake from Little Ease Films on Vimeo.