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15,000 squatters to be kicked out in Keiyo

Published in Tuesday January 7th, 2014 In In the media

County commissioner Arthur Osiya has said the squatters will not be given extra time to continue living in the forests as they had been paid Sh400,000 per family to buy land elsewhere.

High Court judge stops Ruai evictions as 3,000 squatters fight for their land

Published in Monday January 6th, 2014 In In the media

Fugicha said they have occupied the land for the last 14 years without interruption and want the judge stop any eviction. “The defendants intend to evict us and we pray that this court restrains them,” Fugicha said. He said in the interest of justice so that their property is not damaged, the court should protect them.

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Projects Under Scrutiny Displace Istanbul’s Poor

Published in Monday January 6th, 2014 In In the media

On the narrow streets that slope from one of Istanbul’s hills toward the shoreline of the Golden Horn waterway, old wooden houses where military officers of the Ottoman Empire lived are being painstakingly refurbished to their original design. Before the officers arrived, the area, which includes the city’s biggest mosque, was for centuries a center of Islamic scholarship.

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High court blocks Elgeyo Marakwet squatters’ eviction

Published in Monday January 6th, 2014 In In the media

Justice Ochieng issued an injunction stopping the eviction after an application filed by Lawyer Thomas Openda for the families. They squatters want the state to give them more time so that they prepare to vacate from the forests later.

WITNESS and Amnesty International Release a New Toolkit for Housing & Land Rights Activists

Published in Friday December 13th, 2013

This past year we’ve seen powerful stories of activists in Brazil, Cambodia, India and Mexico, rising up to defend their communities from being forcibly evicted. But with 15 million people facing forced eviction every year, there is still a lot of work to be done. To support this work, WITNESS and Amnesty International have released a Forced Evictions Advocacy Toolkit, a multimedia resource for activists, social movements and communities fighting evictions.

France dismantles Roma camp, evicts 800 immigrants

Published in Thursday November 28th, 2013 In In the media

Around 300 police forces attacked the Roma camp in Saint-Ouen in the northern suburbs of Paris early on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of Roma people, including women and children, to leave the place.

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Slum Demolitions to Continue in Zimbabwe

Published in Thursday November 21st, 2013 In In the media

On the issue of violating human rights Matiza said the people who are illegally settled are not only violating their rights but also violating the rights of school children.

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Despite the state’s violence, our fight to escape the mud and fire of South Africa’s slums will continue

Published in Tuesday November 12th, 2013 In Opinion

Our movement of shack-dwellers – Abahlali baseMjondolo, representing some of South Africa’s poorest people – was formed in 2005 in Durban and now has more than 12,000 members in more than 60 shack settlements. We campaign against evictions, and for public housing: struggling for a world in which human dignity comes before private profit, and land, cities, wealth and power are shared fairly.

A Slum Spends Sleepless Nights in Fear of Eviction

Published in Wednesday November 6th, 2013 In In the media

On the morning of March 24, 2011, several hundred police officers, accompanied by giant bulldozers, surrounded the slum of Gayatri Colony in west Delhi as part of an eviction drive by the Delhi Development Authority, which claims ownership of the colony’s land.

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Forced evictions in Nairobi

Published in Tuesday October 8th, 2013

Amnesty International issued a report regarding the situation of Nairobi residents under the threat of forced evictions, focusing on two informal settlements. ity Carton was demolished in May 2013 and some 400 families were forcibly evicted: many remain homeless. Around 3,000 families living in the other settlement, Deep Sea, fear eviction as the Kenya Urban Road Authority plans to construct a road through the settlement.