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Amnesty International reports violation of Italy Roma rights

Published in Monday September 17th, 2012 In In the media

September 15, 2012 Amnesty International has recently released a report called “On the Edge” which urges Italy to change its laws, policies and practices that marginalize the Roma people, also known as Gypsies. An estimated 200,000 Roma people live in Italy today, the majority of them in encampments on the outskirts of cities such as […]

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In India, fear of eviction haunts 6,000 people in reserve forest

Published in Monday September 17th, 2012 In In the media

September 16, 2012 The Karnataka High Court has given them time till December-end to vacate A recent Karnataka High Court order has given 6,000 people time till December-end to vacate their land. The order, issued in April, came after the Forest Department declared 6,777 acres of the Thotadur Gram Panchayat a reserve forest. The impending […]

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Squatter Eviction to Be Supervised By Law in Kenya

Published in Friday September 14th, 2012 In In the media

September 13, 2012 A Bill seeking to regulate future forced evictions of people occupying illegal land was introduced in the House yesterday for the first reading. The Evictions and Resettlement Procedures Bill, sponsored by Kisumu Town East MP Shakeel Shabbir, seeks to protect people occupying land from unlawful and non-procedural evictions. The purpose of the […]

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Italy’s Roma still segregated and without prospects

Published in Thursday September 13th, 2012 In Social movement news

September 12, 2012 Discriminatory laws, policies and practices which marginalize Italy’s Roma must be urgently changed, Amnesty international said in a briefing published today. On the edge: Roma, forced evictions and segregation in Italy, exposes the continuing systematic failure of Italian authorities to uphold Roma rights. In the 10 months since Italy’s highest administrative court […]

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The Urban Social Forum opens in Naples with a field visit from the UN Special Rapporteur

Published in Monday September 10th, 2012 In Social movement news

Naples gave a warm welcome to the second Urban Social Forum (USF). The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing accompanied a USF delegation to the popular neighbourhood Scampia, where she held a reunion with social organizations and the inhabitants of the Giugliano roma camp, who live under an eviction order threat.

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Scores of Roma face imminent forced eviction in Romania

Published in Monday September 10th, 2012 In Social movement news

September 06, 2012 More than 100 Romani adults and children will be forcibly evicted from an informal settlement in northern Romania unless local authorities back down on a pledge to demolish their homes, Amnesty International said today. Local officials in the northern town of Baia Mare have given 26 Romani families living in the Pirita […]

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In Uganda, refinery project will require 8,000 people evicted

Published in Wednesday September 5th, 2012 In In the media

September 5, 2012 The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development has released a draft map showing details of the population and properties of people who settled on the land earmarked for the construction of an oil refinery in Buseruka Sub-county in Hoima district. Bashir Hangi, the refinery project’s communications officer said the draft maps are […]

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Families Displaced by Cambodian Railway Development Seek Justice from the Asian Development Bank

Published in Wednesday September 5th, 2012 In Social movement news

September 4, 2012 Families displaced from their homes and livelihoods by the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-financed project to rehabilitate Cambodia’s railway have filed a complaint to the Bank’s Compliance Review Panel (CRP) stating that they have suffered serious harms, including impoverishment, because of the project. The complaint, which was filed on behalf of affected families […]

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Urgent Appeal for the 236 urban poor families in Makati, Philippines

Published in Monday September 3rd, 2012 In Mobilisation and agenda

Urgent Appeal for the 236 urban poor families in Makati, Philippines As they confront threat of forced eviction and displacement On August 22-24, members of Philippine National Police and demolition team arrived in the community to implement the notice of eviction order by the City Government of Makati.  The urban poor families through the Guatemala […]

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New expulsions, persecution of Roma have some warning ‘Hitler was not alone’

Published in Monday September 3rd, 2012 In In the media

August 31st, 2012 “Remember that Hilter was never alone,” warns one European journalist and blogger in the wake of recent violence throughout Europe, racist actions by right wing groups, and now, just this week – more forcible expulsions of the group known as “Roma” or gypsies fromFrance. Meanwhile today, human rights groups, the European Union and several […]

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