Keyword: Expulsions

Santo Domingo: Evictions, People’s Housing Funds and Collective Property Cooperatives

As part of the World Zero Evictions Days 2007 campaign, a wide variety of national and international institutions are organizing a workshop in Santo Domingo on Evictions, People’s Housing Funds and Collective Property Cooperatives. The aim is to highlight the progress of the creation of a People’s Fund for Housing and Land which is providing millions of people, who are subjected to housing insecurity and evictions in Peru and the Dominican Republic, with access to land and property deeds.

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.

El desalojo, Zona Cero Nueva York

The poorest residents of the neighbourhood in which the Twin Towers stood until 2001 are afraid of losing their homes. Luxury buildings are to be constructed there.Olga Imbaquingo, New York Corresponde nt

Italia: comunità rom a rischio sgombero forzato

©Third Party City authorities in Milan, northern Italy, are preparing to forcibly evict a community of about 200 Roma people living in Rubattino area in the east of the city. According to local NGOs and media, they have announced that they will carry out the evictions at some point before 21 September.

Paris, Rassemblement contre les expulsions de logement

En Île-de-France, la crise du logement bat son plein: plus des deux tiers des expulsions avec intervention de la police ont lieu en région parisienne. Cette situation alarmante touche aussi les demandeurs DALO, expulsés au mépris de la décision préfectorale qui les reconnaît prioritaires pour un relogement. Le RéSEL exige du Préfet d’Ile-de-France qu’il prenne au plus vite des dispositions pour que cessent les expulsions sans relogement.

France, Contre la loi Hortefeux article 32 ter A et la baisse du budget logement

Lundi 8 et mardi 9 novembre : Installation et Exposition des habitats menacésParis, Place Édouard Hériot – M° Assemblée NationaleLundi 8 à 11h30 : Conférence de presse sur placeRassemblement lundi 8 à 18h contre la baisse du budget logementNon à la pénalisation, à l’expulsion arbitraire, et à une procédure d’exception à l’encontre des habitants “illicites” de terrain ...Rroms, gens du voyage, habitants de bidonvilles, de cabanes, de maisons sans permis de construire, et de toutes formes d'habitats légers, mobiles et éphémères, tous sont visés ...

Rio, Venite a prendere a calci il pallone con noi il 30 luglio!

On the day of the World Cup draw, the Popular Committee of the World Cup and Olympics will have a public action in defense of “The People's Cup.” A march for the People's Cup will begin gathering at the Largo do Machado at 10am and will move towards the Marina da Goria where the draw is taking place.

Expulsions massives dans la banlieue de Moscou : les habitants menacent de s’immoler

Le 21 janvier, en pleine nuit, les forces de l’ordre ont commencé l’assaut du village de datchas (habitations de campagne) « Rechnik », dans la banlieue ouest de Moscou. Les habitants (autour de 2000 personnes), qui luttent depuis des mois pour la reconnaissance de leur droit à la propriété de leurs terrains et habitations, faisaient la garde à l’entrée du lotissement et ont rapidement organisé la résistance. Ils ont érigé des barricades et appelé à l’aide les organisations d’autodéfense des habitants d’autres quartiers de Moscou.

Haïti: Les violations du droit au logement pour les victimes du séisme du 12 janvier 2010

¿Qué pasa con la expulsión de los habitantes y residentes en Haití?En Puerto príncipe, Haití, en la actualidad, se producen una serie de actos de expulsiones de las víctimas del terremoto del 12 de enero de 2010, temporalmente alojados en campamentos improvisados.La movilización de las organizaciones de habitantes.

Une "carte du sang" de l'immobilier chinois chronique la violence des démolitions forcées

C'est une "carte du sang"  de l'immobilier chinois, qui répertorie les incidents violents auxquels ont donné lieu des expulsions en Chine. Créé par un internaute chinois sur le logiciel Google Map , le site , consacré "à toutes les existences qui ont pâti de l'ultra-rapide processus d'urbanisation chinoise" , a été visité plus de 350 000 fois depuis sa création le 8 octobre.

Guatemala, la IAI esige dal Presidente la fine degli sgomberi e l’apertura di un tavolo di dialogo

We are writing to you to express our grave concern over the violent evictions that have been taking place since 15th March 2011 in Miralvalle, Parana, Bella Flor, Quinch, Ingenio Chabil Utzaj, Sekokpur in Valle del Polochic, Panzós, Alta Verapaz, Retalhuleu Linea Ferrea, Domingo de Ramos, Palin Linea Ferrea.

Cap Nord du FSE a Malmoe

The European Social Forum ‘Cap Nord’ in Malmö (17-21 September 2008) is the unexpected product of an initiatve to bring the anti-globalisation debate to the historical (and now crisis-ridden) homeland of social democracy and the welfare state, to establish direct links between the social movements of the European Union and those of the former Soviet bloc.

Appeal Red Wheels

We, associations of inhabitants, international networks, voluntary groups, NGOs, public agencies, citizens of the world, and forceful removal being perpetuated against Roma and Travellers which have taken place or are threatened in many cities and towns, from Belgrade and Budapest to Birmingham, Athens, Kaliningrad, Novosibirsk and Milan They signed the petition 527 people!

Appeal Zero Evictions in Croatia

We, associations of inhabitants, international networks, voluntary groups, NGOs, public agencies, citizens of the world, We are profoundly disturbed by and condemn the Republic of Croatia for the Lease Law (ZNS) of 22 October, 1996, which has deprived occupants (40,000 people) of nominally owned privatised apartments of their long-held right to occupy such apartments in perpetuity, such rights being inheritable and which they had enjoyed since 1945.They signed the petition 3680 people!