forced evictions

PhotoBlog - Fire burns Deep Sea slum in Kenya's capital Nairobi

vero — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:19:34 +0100

Around 80-90% of Deep Sea informal settlement in Nairobi were destroyed after a fire broke out on the afternoon of 8 March. According to the Kenya Red Cross, up to 10,000 people may have been affected by the fire - a majority of them having been made homeless, and dozens were reportedly injured.

Source: PhotoBlog - Fire burns Deep Sea slum in Kenya's capital Nairobi

Cambodians evicted in 'land grab' | World news | Guardian Weekly

vero — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:16:50 +0100

According to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia, Professor Surya P Subedi, this is "not an isolated case". It is "representative of the problems of this nature that exist in the country. Land grabbing by the rich and powerful is a major problem."

Source: Cambodians evicted in 'land grab' | World news | Guardian Weekly

Cambodia's growing dispossessed - Features - Al Jazeera English

vero — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:59:38 +0000

"Only foreign pressure can help us now," says resident and local organiser Tep Vanny. "We believe the companies are tied to the government and when we protest, we are threatened and no one listens. Please, see what is happening here."

Time may also be running out. Last week, Vanny says the remaining residents were given seven days to accept the company's offer of $8,500 compensation and demolish their homes, or get nothing.

"We would rather die here," says Vanny. "People must also understand this. This is our home and we will not leave."

Source: Cambodia's growing dispossessed - Features - Al Jazeera English

Welcome to Bridges Across Borders Cambodia!

vero — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:40:50 +0000

The World Bank’s Inspection Panel found that the Bank breached its operational policies by failing to properly design and supervise the Cambodia Land Management and Administration Project (LMAP), contributing to the forced eviction of some 4,250 families.

Source: Welcome to Bridges Across Borders Cambodia!

About the Save Boeung Kak Campaign: « Save Boeung Kak

vero — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:33:19 +0000

The residents of Phnom Penh are becoming increasingly frustrated by the chaotic and largely unplanned construction in this ‘jewel’of an Asian city.

While welcoming sustainable and inspired development the latest and largest ‘development’ is the filling of Boeung Kok. The loss of this iconic open space is nothing short of tragic particularly in the light that the 133 hecatres of public property will be developed for private business gain (estimated at US$2 billion +).

Source: About the Save Boeung Kak Campaign: « Save Boeung Kak

Forced Evictions

SamSam — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:49:52 +0000

Message from Park Rae-Gun

vero — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:16:13 +0000

Mapping Kibera

vero — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:55:26 +0000

Until recently, what is often billed as one of Africa's largest slums - Kibera, in the Kenyan capital Nairobi - was a blank spot on official maps. But a group of volunteers have been training young people living there to create their own digital map of the area.

Source: Mapping Kibera

Forced evictions in Port Harcourt

vero — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:55:16 +0100

Solidarity messages for residents of Port Harcourt

vero — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:38:53 +0100

Eye on Rivers - Nigeria's Port Harcourt

vero — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:58:31 +0100

Serbia: Roma children and pregnant women left homeless after forcible eviction in Belgrade

Vashka — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:56:00 +0100

Amnesty International has urged the Belgrade authorities to stop forced evictions after Roma families, including 17 children and one pregnant woman, were evicted from their homes in the city.

The 36 people were forcibly evicted from their houses at 15 Vojvodjanska Street, where most of them had been living since 2003 after previously being forcibly evicted from another site in Belgrade. Amnesty International learnt that the forced eviction was carried out in order to make way for the building of a new road and an apartment building.

Source: Serbia: Roma children and pregnant women left homeless after forcible eviction in Belgrade

'Shining India' makes its poor pay price of hosting Commonwealth Games

vero — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:33:29 +0100

The government bulldozers came to the school at 11am, after yoga and before English and Hindi lessons. The children and their teachers had three hours to clear the classrooms. By mid-afternoon, the Yamuna Riverbank school was rubble.

Source: 'Shining India' makes its poor pay price of hosting Commonwealth Games

squattercity: Squatters and the World Cup

vero — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:03:44 +0000

South African squatters are suggesting that they will protest during the soccer World Cup to dramatize the lack of affordable housing and horribly deprived and neglected condition of their communities.

Understandable. After all, the South African government and various municipalities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the Football World Cup, including, the Telegraph notes, $170 million just for security.

Source: squattercity: Squatters and the World Cup

Economic cleansing' in BBC's World Cup backyard

Niluccio — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:49:23 +0000

On the one hand, a glass-sided television studio with panoramic views of Table Mountain and Cape Town's spectacular new 68,000-seater football stadium is installed by the BBC for the forthcoming World Cup. On the other, destitute locals are evicted from their only home, barely 100m away. Welcome to the two faces of modern South Africa.

Source: Economic cleansing' in BBC's World Cup backyard

Roma's housings under threat

vero — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:45:52 +0000

Forced evictions in Kenya - Justus Nyang'aya

vero — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:09:00 +0000

People of Kibera

vero — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:27:11 +0000

CAMBODIA: An "epidemic" of evictions

vero — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:54:41 +0100

In recent years, NGOs and rights groups have raised concerns over what they say is an epidemic of forced evictions amid spiralling land prices and lax enforcement of laws.

Many evictions make way for hotels and skyscrapers in the rapidly developing capital. In the countryside, evictions are often justified to make way for logging, mining, resorts, casinos or plantations.

Source: CAMBODIA: An "epidemic" of evictions

Forced Evictions In Africa Series | Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog

vero — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:12:25 +0100

Approximately 85% of Angolans live in slum conditions surrounding major cities.

Source: Forced Evictions In Africa Series | Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog

Forced evictions in Ghana

vero — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:58:36 +0100

Forced evictions in Kenya

vero — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:55:01 +0100

World Habitat Day - Stop forced evictions in Africa

vero — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:29:45 +0100

World Habitat Day - Stop forced evictions in Africa

vero — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:26:46 +0100

Squattercity

vero — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:34:37 +0100

I'm a writer who spent two years living in squatter communities in four continents. These neighborhoods--which dominate most of the cities of the developing world--are vibrant and energetic, but horribly misunderstood.

Source: Squattercity

Nairobi: Kenya begins huge slum clearance « The Struggle for the City

vero — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:20:11 +0100

Kenyan authorities have begun to move residents out of Africa’s largest slum – the Kibera settlement in Nairobi

Source: Nairobi: Kenya begins huge slum clearance « The Struggle for the City

Nyamalo and Opiata - AGM 09

vero — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:16:16 +0100

Nyamalo and Opiata at the Amnesty UK AGM 09

vero — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:13:06 +0100

Deep Sea residents meet Amnesty's campaigners

vero — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:43:56 +0100

World Press Photo Awards | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

vero — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:17:59 +0000

Strong photographs reflecting today's world. Lots of photos related to forced evictions (Brazil, Kenya, US)

Source: World Press Photo Awards | Art and design | guardian.co.uk