En el marco de las fiestas patronales de San Isidro Labrador, 14 y 15 de mayo de 2012, municipio indígena de Zaragoza, Veracruz, se realizó el tianguis agroecológico, cuyo noble propósito es recuperar la cultura ancestral del trueque, la fiesta y la agricultura orgánica. En este evento participaron indígenas Tzotziles, Zoques y Nahuas. También mestizos de Veracruz, Oaxaca, Ciudad de México y Chiapas. »
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." »
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. »
Anti-riot police and a government demolition team clash with residents during the demolition of shanties in Corazon De Jesus village in San Juan city ( January 11 2012) The year 2011 had the highest number of documented cases of eviction since 1994, according to a study of Urban Poor Associates’ (UPA), a housing rights advocate. From January to December 2011, 14, 744 families or 73,780 individuals were evicted in 39 demolition incidents. ... »
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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. »
Approximately 20 left-wing mayors have signed anti-eviction measures that also legislate against cutting off water and electricity, thus protecting almost one million inhabitants from the effects of the housing crisis. A plea to all mayors. »
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. »
April 17 is the International Day of Peasant Struggle, commemorating the massacre of 19 peasants struggling for land and justice in Brazil in 1996. Every year on that day actions take place around the world in defence of peasants and small-scale farmers struggling for their rights.Denounce land grabbing! Wherever you are, fill in this poster with the name of your local land grabbers and send us a picture of what you are doing to protest with this poster.E-... »