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Seniors face eviction in Detroit gentrification plan

Published in Wednesday May 8th, 2013 In Social movement news

Retired workers living in a rent-subsidized senior housing building are facing eviction in downtown Detroit. New owners who recently took over their apartment building have given the elderly residents on fixed income a year to clear out so they can raise rents to “market rates.”

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Secure housing for millions remains a global challenge

Published in Wednesday May 8th, 2013 In News on the Rapporteurs

For the millions of people facing forced evictions and displacement, access to secure and adequate housing continues to be a challenge. According to the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, it is estimated that more than 18 million people were evicted from their homes between 1998 and 2008

Residents of Guangzhou new town’s last urban village battle against eviction

Published in Thursday April 25th, 2013 In In the media

Angry Guangzhou natives in the ramshackle village of Tan, the last urban village left standing in the posh Zhujiang New Town, have stepped up their fight in court this week to protect their ancient homes. Four families from Tan appeared before the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court on Wednesday, trying to get their eviction orders overturned. And more than 200 people showed up from Tan and other urban villages that are seeing forced evictions without what the residents consider fair compensation.

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Forced evictions worsen the already dire lot of earthquake homeless in Haiti

Published in Wednesday April 24th, 2013 In Social movement news

Forced evictions in Haiti are worsening the already desperate situation of thousands of people still living in displacement camps more than three years after the devastating earthquake of January 2010, Amnesty International said as it launched the report ‘Nowhere to go’: Forced evictions in Haiti’s camps for displaced people.

‘We’ll throw you all out’ – Forced eviction threat for Haiti earthquake victims

Published in Wednesday April 24th, 2013 In Social movement news

Purported landowners use threats and intimidation to force people onto the street. Usually they have not initiated a judicial process to seek a legal eviction, and often they can’t even prove they have the legal title to the land they claim to own. In many cases, local police, judicial and municipal authorities are also involved in forced evictions or are present when threats are made. One thing they all have in common is the incapacity of central government authorities to protect displaced people from illegal eviction. Impunity of perpetrators remain blatant.

Tens of thousands face eviction from Haiti camps, according to Amnesty

Published in Tuesday April 23rd, 2013 In In the media

Rights group Amnesty International has collected dozens of testimonies from Haitians who have been kicked out of makeshift camps set up by those left homeless by the 2010 earthquake.

Over 200 Farmers Risk Eviction in Kenya

Published in Tuesday April 23rd, 2013

Tension is high in Trans Nzoia County after more than 200 farm owners in Chepchoina ADC farm were issued with eviction orders.

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Ethiopian PM Rejects Land-Grab Allegations

Published in Monday April 22nd, 2013 In In the media

Ethiopia remains one of the world’s poorest nations, with its government attempting to attract large-scale foreign investment in a bid to alleviate poverty and create jobs to millions of citizens. Investors from India, China, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are currently eyeing large tracts of land to cultivate cereals, coffee, tea and rice, among others. According to human right organisations, Ethiopia has leased over 600,000 hectares of land to Indian companies alone.

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Criminalization of homelessness – local impact, global issue

Published in Wednesday April 10th, 2013 In Social movement news

As the economic crisis continues at the bottom end of the income spectrum, the past week has brought two victories worth noting, from the most humble of tent encampments to the marble halls of the U.N.’s Palais Wilson in Geneva.

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Roma people still face ‘forced eviction’ throughout Europe

Published in Tuesday April 9th, 2013 In In the media

The executive should “take decisive action and play a central role” in ending discrimination against Roma people in Europe. The demand, from the charity Amnesty International, was made on Monday, designated ‘international Roma day’. It comes more than a decade after the EU adopted the race equality directive that bans racial or ethnic-based discrimination.

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