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The Price of Steel: Human Rights and Forced Evictions in the POSCO-India Project

Published in Tuesday July 2nd, 2013

Worth approximately US$12 billion, the POSCO-India project represents the largest single foreign direct investment in India to date, and will require more than 12,000 acres of land, including approximately 4,000 acres for an integrated steel plant and captive port in an area that is home to forest-dwelling communities and a vibrant and sustainable local economy centered around betel leaf cultivation. For the past eight years, affected communities—including betel leaf farmers, fisherfolk, and Dalits—have effectively stalled the project and resisted their forcible evictions from lands they have cultivated for generations.

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Rights Groups Urge Suspension of the POSCO-India Project, Prevention of Forced Evictions

Published in Monday July 1st, 2013 In Social movement news

The Government of India must end human rights abuses tied to its project with South Korean steel giant POSCO, and must immediately cease illegal seizures of land which threaten to forcibly displace as many as 22,000 people in India’s eastern state of Odisha, said rights groups in a new report.

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Subscribe the appeal: Piquiá wants to live!

Published in Friday June 28th, 2013 In Mobilisation and agenda

We ask your help: click here to e-mail to the Mayor of Açailândia, to the Government and the General Attorney of Justice of Maranhão, northeastern Brazil, to say no more pollution killing the 1,100 residents of Piquiá de Baixo, no more excuses to delay their resettlement!

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Land in the Struggle for Social Justice: Social Movement Strategies to Secure Human Rights

Published in Thursday June 27th, 2013

ESCR-Net, in collaboration with Terra de Direitos, is pleased announce the release of a new publication titled Land in the Struggle for Social Justice: Social Movement Strategies to Secure Human Rights. The publication documents the experiences of diverse social movements that have utilized the human rights framework in their struggles for access to and control over land, and the lessons they have learned.

Singda locals hold demonstrations against dam expansion plan

Published in Monday June 24th, 2013 In In the media

As a part of the beautification programme of Singda Dam and to ensure development in the field of power, water and agriculture in Manipur, the Singda Dam area is going to be expanded. A sit-in-protest was held against this decision of the state government by the local people at Singda Kadangband Bazar on Saturday.

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Horto Resists: Historic Community in Jardim Botânico Fights to Remain

Published in Monday June 3rd, 2013 In Social movement news

As the rain started to pour on Tuesday evening, May 28th, around 80 residents from the Horto community protested at the gates of Rio’s Jardim Botânico (Botanical Gardens) where the opening of world famous photographer Sebastião Salgado’s latest exhibition was taking place. Undeterred by the ensuing downpour, residents and supporters banged drums and held their banners high. “To brand as invaders the people who built this park is inhuman” read one held at the entrance to the famous visitor attraction.

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Migration is expulsion by another name in world of foreign land deals

Published in Wednesday May 29th, 2013 In In the media

Though the acquisition of land by foreign governments and firms is a centuries old process in much of the world, we can detect specific phases in these long and diverse histories.

Botswana denies eviction plans

Published in Monday May 27th, 2013 In In the media

Botswana has denied plans to remove hundreds of Bushmen from their land to make way for a wildlife park. Earlier this week, indigenous rights group Survival International claimed authorities were going to evict the community who have been based in the southern settlement of Ranyane for generations.

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Botswana ‘to evict’ Bushmen: indigenous rights group

Published in Monday May 27th, 2013 In In the media

The government of Botswana will next week evict hundreds of Bushmen from their land to make way for a wildlife park, indigenous rights group Survival International claimed Friday. The group said the indigenous community based in the south of the country, will be removed Monday and their homes will be destroyed.

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Eu, Favela

Published in Monday May 20th, 2013

With the recent implementation of the Pacifying Police Units (UPP) in several favelas in Rio de Janeiro, the gentrification process can already be observed, due to the vergitinous real estate valuation and to the rise in costs of infrastructure. Testimonies from residents of Chapéu Mangueira, a community in the Leme neighborhood, question the consequences of the current government’s policy, alerting the population so that the favela culture is not lost.

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