May 9, 2012 RioOnWatch was the first news site to report on the brutal Favela do Metrô eviction back in November 2010. A year and a half later we revisit the scene to see how residents have faired. Slideshow is also available. Two years on from the first announcements that their houses would be cleared to make […]
May 09, 2012 The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) together with Rights Action and the International Human Rights Clinic at Western New England University School of Law has filed a Petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in an attempt to hold the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) […]
During a weeklong visit to Chile prompted by several local organizations, Raquel Rolnik, the special rapporteur on housing with the United Nations, criticized the role of subsidies in Chile’s reconstruction process after the 2010 earthquake. “The reconstruction following the 2010 earthquake has been an efficient and notable process, but it ought to rely upon a mechanism apart from subsidies,” Rolnik told the press.
Published in Tuesday April 24th, 2012
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Brazil is gearing up for the next World Cup and Olympics – but the country’s poorest say they are being swept aside in a tidal wave of forced evictions and human rights abuses in shanty towns known as favelas. And they say nobody is listening.
Published in Monday April 23rd, 2012
We will publish in the next months an informative material on mega-events and right to housing, then we decided to open this topic of discussion for you to share your opinion and experiences on the issue. You can also send documents, studies, articles, news stories and reports.
Published in Thursday April 12th, 2012
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Published in Thursday April 12th, 2012
(Português) O documento assinado por diversos ministérios do Governo Brasileiro em 2007 elenca as diversas garantias que o país se compromete dar à FIFA para assegurar a realização da Copa do Mundo de 2014 conforme as exigência da instituição.
April 6th, 2012 by Maria Sanchez Tucked between sand dunes and the Pacific Ocean, perched on a small hill, is Xayakalan, home to members of the indigenous community, Santa Maria Ostula. Here, the sound of waves hitting the shore mixes with the cries of children playing among the wooden huts. Against this beautiful backdrop, a […]
The Homeless Workers Movement, together with other groups, organized on Wednesday (April 4th) a series of protests across the country in order to draw attention to the problems caused by the 2014 World Cup projects, specially regarding the evictions of “thousands of working families”. The goal is to denounce the removal of families and the creation of laws for the mega events on 2014 and 2016.
