Allerte internazionali sulle violazioni del diritto alla casa

Il Comitato consultivo di UN-HABITAT sugli sfratti (AGFE) ha presentato il secondo Rapporto sugli sfratti forzati durante la Ventunesima Riunione del Consiglio di Amministrazione. Tale documento contiene aggiornamenti su casi di sfratto precedentemente documentati da AGFE nel suo primo rapporto e su 15 nuovi casi in Angola, Botswana, Brasile, India, Nigeria, Giappone, Pakistan, Palestina, Perù, Sud Africa e Zimbabwe.

Dopo la costituzione, avvenuta nella primavera del 2004, l’UN-Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (UN-HABITAT-AGFE) ha ricevuto una trentina di dossier, provenienti da altrettanti paesi, che denunciano le gravi minacce di sgombero di gruppi sociali marginalizzati, di intere comunità e quartieri. Su queste basi ha deciso di svolgere le prime missioni inviando, tra febbraio e marzo 2005, proprie delegazioni composte da rappresentanti di associazioni di abitanti, amministrazioni locali, ong, a Roma (Italia), Curitiba (Brasile), S. Domingo (Repubblica Domenicana)

The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions is one of the most influential international human rights organizations dedicated to securing economic, social and cultural rights, with a special focus on housing. COHRE’s work concentrates on preventing planned forced evictions and protecting housing rights.

Media Kit on Forced Evictions Download the whole document in PDF format : mediakit.pdf (137.11 KB)

Background/Mandate: The United Nations Housing Rights Programme (UNHRP) was launched in April 2002, as a joint initiative by UN-HABITAT and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The establishment of the programme was a direct response to United Nations Commission on Human Settlements resolution 16/7 and United Nations Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2001/28 and 2001/34, all of which called upon the two agencies to elaborate a United Nations Housing Rights Programme. The substantive focus of the programme is grounded in the Habitat Agenda, in particular paragraph 61, which states that "Within the overall context of an enabling approach, Governments should take appropriate action in order to promote, protect and ensure the full and progressive realization of the right to adequate housing". [Read more...]

The Global Campaign for Secure Tenure is designed to take forward the commitment of Governments to providing Adequate Shelter for All, one of the two main themes of the Habitat Agenda. The Campaign identifies the provision of secure tenure as essential for a sustainable shelter strategy, and as a vital element in the promotion of Housing Rights. [Read more...]

Nairobi, 12 March, 2004 - UN-HABITAT’s Advisory Group on Forced Eviction (AGFE) met for the first time on 5 March 2005 at the organizations headquarters in Nairobi. UN-HABITAT sees the monitoring of forced evictions as an essential component for the successful implementation of the Habitat Agenda. In her welcoming address, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, UN-HABITAT’s Executive Director challenged the group to address the voice of the urban poor who are in urgent need of adequate shelter and some form of secure tenure. [Read more...]

MEMBERS UN-HABITAT ADVISORY GROUP ON FORCED EVICTION (2004)
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• Cesare Ottolini, Coordinator International Alliance of Inhabitants, Italy
• Couglan Pather, Secretary of housing, Durban, South Africa
• David Satterthwaite, Senior Fellow IIED, Unite Kingdom
• Guillermo Rodriguez Curiel, Executive Commission of the Continental Front of Community organizations, Mexico
• Hermes Binner, Mayor of Rosario, Argentina
• Hosaka Mitsuhiko, Asian Coalition Housing Rights, Japan
• Jane Weru, Pamoja Trust, Kenya
• Jockin Arputham, National Slum Dwellers Federation, India
• Joel Bolnick, Peoples Dialogue, South Africa
• Leticia Osorio, COHRE Latin America, Brazil
• Malick Gaye, ENDA Tiers Monde, Senegal
• Olivio Dutra, Ministry of the Cities, Brazil
• Paulo Teixiera, Secretary of housing and City planning, S. Paolo, Brazil
• Scott Leckie, Director COHRE, Switzerland
• Somsook Boonyabancha, Community Organizations Development Institute, Thailand
• Yves Cabannes, former Coordinator UMP Latin America and Caribbean