Keyword: Campaign
Campaign against forced evictions in Nairobi
Photo Francesco Fantini
This is a Joint Position Paper prepared by members of the Campaign Against Forced Evictions in the Informal Settlements in Nairobi on March 17th 2004. In the last few weeks, Nairobi informal settlements residents have experienced great threat to their short and long term stability, resultant from threats of demolition and eviction.
Organize an action in your community for International Housing Rights/Zero Eviction Days in October!
Housing rights networks in the US and Canada are fighting back. The USA-Canada Alliance of Inhabitants has launched a campaign to fight the criminalization of the homeless and affirm the right to housing for all. The National Alliance of HUD Tenants has mobilized to fight budget cuts, rent increases and time limits on housing aid that threaten millions with displacement. Take Back the Land and others are taking direct action to block foreclosures and evictions and to house the homeless in cities across the US.And all are joining the World Habitat Days launched by Habitat International Coalition (HIC) and International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI)...
Claiming the rights to housing, land, and the city Decriminalization/Civil Rights Campaign
The Decriminalization/Civil Rights Campaign is one of several initiatives and events that will be part of the WAI’s World Habitat Days. It is intended specifically to resist the criminalization of poor and homeless people and to insist that the governments of the USA and Canada meet commitments to the alternatives--adequate and affordable housing for every family.
Nairobi, Memorandum Dandora Dumping Site and Waste Management
Dandor dumpig site (Francesco Fantini)
The “Stop Dumping Death on Us”
campaign has disclosed to the media its Memorandum on waste management system in Nairobi and the decommissioning of Dandora dumping site. The memorandum set a clear demand for the President and the Prime Minister to provide leadership in this process and appeals to them to set up a framework to coordinate Waste Management in Nairobi and the relocation of Dandora dumping site. The campaigners asked the President and the Prime Minister to intervene to avoid uncoordinated efforts which may lead to duplication of efforts and possible institutional conflicts among different government actors.
USA, 250,000 empty public properties should be used to address the housing crisis
In response to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) Request for Information (RFI) asking private investors "what to do" with Fannie and Freddie-owned empty homes
, a letter was submitted on behalf of the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights and its allies, which expresses their
dismay to find the U.S. government again looking to feed the “speculative fever” of banks and private investors, while millions of U.S. families are homeless or on the brink of losing their homes to evictions and foreclosures.
Desde el FSM: propuestas para la unidad de los movimientos sociales urbanos
Agreements and conclusions of the meeting of coordination between urban networks.
On 24 January 2007, a convergence meeting of urban social movements playing a role in the right housing and to the city was held in Nairobi under the framework of the WSF, jointly proposed by the HIC and IAI.
Participants: around 200 representatives of movements from 20 countries in Africa, Europe, Northern and Latin America and Asia, as well as local authorities that are members of the LAF.