Keyword: evacuation
Paris, La Courneuve : point sur la lutte des expulsés brutalisés
Eviction La Courneve, Paris (July 21 2010)
A video of a forced eviction in la Courneuve on July 21, a method introduced by the new prefect. Jean Baptiste Eyraud, the president of Droit au Logement (DAL - Right to Housing Association) is outraged. He says "Dragging women with their babies, I have never seen that! When they are dealing with people in trouble, they must act differently. An intervention like that leaves marks on the minds of children. The adults were scared for them. Then I was taken into custody because I stayed at the scene after the warning from the police. "
DAL, with support from the International Alliance of Inhabitants, requests for relocation of those who were evicted and, as a joined force, demands regularization of undocumented persons.
IRAQ: Squatters moved out of nearly two thirds of returnees’ homes
A displaced Iraqi woman living in the Adhamiyah neighbourhood of Baghdad. Many of the displaced cannot return because other families are squatting in their homes (jamesdale10/Flickr)
Nearly two thirds of homes belonging to Iraqi internally displaced persons (IDPs) or refugees that were occupied by squatters have been evacuated since mid-2008, a government official said on 9 January
Open Letter about W Nairobi W Campaign
Photo: Francesco Fantini
The W Nairobi W!
campaign, active since March 2004 in Italy and the rest of Europe, as well as in Kenya, has successfully opposed the Kenyan government’s threat to forcibly evict 350,000 slum dwellers from their homes. in Nairobi.