Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EDT On Tuesday, May 22, the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty will be hosting a free webinar previewing its upcoming report, "Welcome Home: The Rise of Tent Cities in the United States." »
Se inauguró el 2 de mayo la muestra “Construyendo Hábitat”, basada en el proyecto de investigación visual de la socióloga y fotógrafa italiana Veronica Pancheri, actual voluntaria SVE en la Antena Sur-AIH. El proyecto, que se exhibe en la Sala de Exposiciones “Manuel Belgrano” de la Legislatura porteña, muestra a través de fotografías y palabras, qué significa trabajar en la construcción de un hábitat digno y cómo diferentes actores contribuyen a la misma lucha. »
The Constitution kicked (Budapest, May 10 2012) The first court ruling about the sit-in that took place in October 2011 against the criminalization of homelessness – in which several members of The City is for All (AVM) took part – was announced today. According to the judge, the activists protesting criminalization are guilty of misdemeanor. The members of AVM our proud of what they did: if we need to, we will engage in civil disobedience ag... »
Stop flat and land grab! (St. Petersburg, Russia, April 17 2012) Now in Russia in St. Petersburg held a hunger strike duped investors. We lost our homes because of the criminal conspiracy of officials and corporations. We are also the victims of tyranny and greed of government and corporations.We express our solidarity with peasants and small-scale farmers struggling for their rights, and we demand to stop the land grab. Only a joint effort a... »
Bridges Across Borders Cambodia has closely monitored the resettlement process and impacts of the GMS Rehabilitation of the Railways in Cambodia Project . The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is contributing $84 million in concessional loans and the Australian international aid agency AusAID is contributing $22.9 million in grants to this project, which stands to impact at more than 4000 families who live along the tracks. »
Polizia antisommossa e impresa di demolizione si scontrano con i residenti durante l’abbattimento delle baracche nel villaggio di Corazon De Jesus nella città di San Juan (11 gennaio 2012). Secondo un’indagine condotta dall’UPA (Urban Poor Associates), associazione non-governativa per il diritto alla casa, il 2011 è stato l’anno in cui si è registrato il più elevato numero di casi di sfratto dal 1994.Tra gennaio e dicembre 2011 si contano 39... »
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Adequate housing is not just a collective right, it is also the right of every individual, every man, woman and child everywhere The campaign based on that the right to adequate housing is a human right, which has been recognized on a wide scale by international human rights instruments that have been signed and ratified by Egypt, and thus the state becomes bound by these instruments to recognize the right to adequate housing in its Legislati... »
Tahrir Square and other Squares in Egypt witnessed bloody incidents that exposed the youth of Egypt to oppression, murder and intentional injury The undersigned hold the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to its full political and criminal responsibility for the dead and wounded as well as to its circumvention of the fair demands of the masses. »
Thousands were forcibly evicted from the indigenous Gosa 1 village located along the Airport Road, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Thursday, April 26, 2012 on the orders of the Nigerian Army. »
Sit-it des organisations d'habitants pour exiger le droit à la terre et au logement (Ougadougou, 30 03 2011) La Bourse du Travail de Ouagadougou a accueilli pendant tout la journée du 30 mars le sit-in organisé par les organisations d'habitants pour exiger justice, donc la levée de la suspension de lotissement, non à l'accaparement des terres et aux déguerpissements. »
Une vingtaine de maires de gauche ont signé des arrêtés anti-expulsions locatives et contre les coupures d'énergie et de l'eau, protégeant ainsi presque un millions d'habitants des effets de la crise sur le logement. Un appel à tous les maires. »
The International Permanent Secretariat Human Rights and Local Governments ( SPIDH) of Nantes will participate in the next UCLG World Council (United Cities and Local Governments) which will be held between 9 and 11 December 2011 in Florence (Italy). »
La Asamblea Nacional aprobó el martes 8 de mayo el proyecto de Ley Orgánica para la Regulación de Créditos para Vivienda y Vehículos . Los ecuatorianos en el exterior verán protegidos sus bienes con garantía hipotecaría en Ecuador, es decir, no se podrán embargar. »
Construction of a highway adjacent to the National Flag Square. In the background stands the building at 5 Agil Guliyev Street, which was being demolished with residents still remaining in it as this report went to press. © 2012 Human Rights Watch The government of Azerbaijan has forcibly evicted homeowners and demolished their homes for urban development projects in Baku, the capital, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. »
Today GRAIN is making available a new data set documenting 416 recent, large-scale land grabs by foreign investors for the production of food crops. The cases cover nearly 35 million hectares of land in 66 countries. »
Il 17 aprile è la giornata internazionale delle lotte contadine, che ricorda il massacro di 19 contadini che lottavano per terra e giustizia in Brasile, nel 1996. Ogni anno si celebra questo giorno in tutto il mondo, a difesa dei contadini e delle contadine che lottano per i loro diritti. Denuncia l’accaparramento delle terre! Ovunque tui sia, compila il poster con il nome dei locali accaparratori di terra e inviaci una foto di quello che state f... »