Keyword: World Habitat Days
Organize an action in your community for International Housing Rights/Zero Eviction Days in October!
Housing rights networks in the US and Canada are fighting back. The USA-Canada Alliance of Inhabitants has launched a campaign to fight the criminalization of the homeless and affirm the right to housing for all. The National Alliance of HUD Tenants has mobilized to fight budget cuts, rent increases and time limits on housing aid that threaten millions with displacement. Take Back the Land and others are taking direct action to block foreclosures and evictions and to house the homeless in cities across the US.And all are joining the World Habitat Days launched by Habitat International Coalition (HIC) and International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI)...
Claiming the rights to housing, land, and the city Decriminalization/Civil Rights Campaign
The Decriminalization/Civil Rights Campaign is one of several initiatives and events that will be part of the WAI’s World Habitat Days. It is intended specifically to resist the criminalization of poor and homeless people and to insist that the governments of the USA and Canada meet commitments to the alternatives--adequate and affordable housing for every family.
Movie: More Than A Roof
Cuando Raquel Rolnik, Rapporteur Especial del derecho a la vivienda adecuada de las Naciones Unidas, acudió a la llamada para visitar a los Estados Unidos en medio de una crisis de vivienda, era la primera vez que un experto en vivienda de las Naciones Unidas investigaba formalmente a los Estados Unidos.
The World Habitat Days & Zero Eviction Days in India
National Forum for Urban Poor (NFUP
), an active member of Leaders and Organisors of Community Organisations in Asia (LOCOA
) and affiliated to International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI
), committed to the decision taken by the World Assembly of Inhabitants
at WSF-Dakar
, 2011,
call upon all housing and land rights activists/organisations to join in mass actions in 4 Mega Cities (Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi and Bangalore
) of India between 1
st
October
and 31
st
October 2011
to demand an immediate end to forced evictions and land grabbing, and a halt to the persecution and intimidation of activists and genuine fulfillment of the right to housing and land for all.
The World Habitat Days & Zero Eviction Days in Bangladesh
National Parliament House, Dhaka, BangladeshOctober 3 2011 9.00 am The WAI Bangladesh Committee Meeting (IPD, RHDS, PDAP, PRATTAY, PROSHIKA & Shelter for the Poor), invite all the people to participate to the following activities to observe the World Habitat Days & Zero Eviction Days 2011 in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh, Human chain and meeting for Zero Evictions and Right to Housing
Organized by the International Alliance of Inhabitants-WAI Bangladesh the people of Bangladesh have observed the World Habitat Day 2011 successfully completed the following activities for the day.
California, Prayer Walk for Homes and Healing
CHAM is organizing a Prayer Walk for Homes and Healing to take place at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, October 6. The walk will begin at St. James Park near the corner of First and St. John Street, and will proceed through the neighborhood where we will pass by and pray before several vacant and/or foreclosed homes.
Making Phnom Penh an Eviction Free Zone
Please join us for the Phnom Penh solidarity event, hosted by the Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), which will include speeches by activists, film trailers, video footage and photos of evictions, as well as a call to sign a petition to make Phnom Penh an Eviction Free Zone. John Vink to present photos of recent Boeung Kak Lake evictions.
Hundreds demonstrated against the growing criminalization of homelessness in Budapest
On 17 October, The City is for All (AVM) held a major demonstration against a government proposal to impose a €500 fine or imprisonment on people who are found “residing in public places” twice over the course of 6 months. According to AVM, the proposal is unconstitutional and inhumane, since it punishes homeless people for not having appropriate housing.
Make Phnom Penh an Eviction Free Zone!
Launching Petition Make Phnom Penh an Eviction Free Zone
Over the past two decades, over ten percent of the Phnom Penh’s population has been displaced, often for poorer futures. These World Habitat Days, join us in calling on Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema to end forced evictions and declare Phnom Penh an Eviction Free Zone
. The last day to sign the petition is November 1 2011.
Mumbai, WHD: Rally, Memorandum and Joint Anti-Evictions Task Force announced
Jornada Mundial del Hábitat, manifestación desde Mahim Phatak hasta Pila Bunglow en Dharavi (Bombay, 31 de octubre de 2011)
Una nueva alianza integrada por organizaciones de habitantes instauró el Jornada Mundial del Hábitat. Alrededor de quinientas organizaciones populares presentaron un memorándum al Jefe de Gobierno del Estado en el que pidieron detener los desalojos forzados y promover el diálogo con las comunidades locales, las ONG y las organizaciones sociales para encontrar soluciones apropiadas a la crisis de vivienda en Bombay, en total conformidad con el Pacto Internacional sobre los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales. Con el fin de respaldar estos reclamos, se anunció la constitución de
la Fuerza-Tarea Unitaria
Anti-Desalojos, que incluirá a todos las partes interesadas
Budapest, Spectacular performance ended up in short-term-arrest of activists
On 11 November 2011 the group City is for All (AVM) held a demonstration in front of the municipality of Budapest’s 8th district claiming that local mayor Mate Kocsis repeal his proposal to impose a 530 euros fine on homeless people or 60 days of imprisonment for "residing in public places"
Bamako, le raccomandazioni di un Forum riuscito
El segundo Forum de los desalojados, organizado por la UACDDDD, tuvo lugar el 23 de octubre de 2011 en la Pyramide du Souvenir
(Pirámide del Recuerdo) de Bamako y contó con la participación de más de 1000 personas y con delegados de diversas regiones. El tema central "desalojados de la tierra, del hábitat, de la aplicación de los derechos de África y del exterior: qué alternativa permitirá delimitar la cuestión e igualmente escuchar los problemas a los que se enfrentan”.
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