Further information on UA: 294/11 Index: AMR 19/003/2012 Issue Date: 1 February 2012

The Laranjeira Ñanderu indigenous community, including over 80 children and 30 elderly people, is at risk of eviction from an area they claim as ancestral lands in Brazil. If evicted, the community will be forced to live on a small plot of land near a highway, without adequate access to water, shade or area to plant crops. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 248/11 Index: AFR 12/003/2011 Issue Date: 15 September 2011

The planned forced evictions in the Arco Iris neighbourhood of Lubango, Angola, which were scheduled for 25 August, did not take place. Residents believe the work of Amnesty International and the local NGO Association Building Communities (Associação Construindo Comunidades - ACC) contributed to stopping the forced eviction. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 185/11 Index: EUR 41/007/2011 Issue Date: 17 June 2011

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Abdelilah Ghailán and Fátima Zohra Alami Wahabi and their two children are at risk of being forcibly evicted from their homes in Madrid, Spain, from 24 June 2011. The eviction has been ordered without prior consultation and the family has not been offered any alternative housing. Hundreds of other families living in the same area could suffer a similar fate. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 121/11 Index: EUR 30/009/2011 Issue Date: 21 April 2011

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Residents in at least three unauthorized Roma settlements in Rome have been evicted, continuing what seems to be a wave of forced evictions in the Italian capital. According to local NGOs, more than 30 settlements have been evicted since the beginning of April. There are fears that residents in other Roma settlements in the city are at imminent risk of eviction. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 63/11 Index: ASA 23/001/2011 Issue Date: 08 March 2011

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Up to 1,500 families living around Boeung Kak Lake in Phnom Penh are facing imminent forced eviction, as the local authority and the company developing the land seek to clear the area. Intimidation and threats have been used against villagers to coerce them into accepting inadequate compensation or resettlement, and the security forces have used unnecessary force against peaceful gatherings of protesters. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 229/10 Index: AMR 19/015/2010 Issue Date: 29 October 2010

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The community of Restinga is in imminent risk of forced eviction due to the construction of a highway in Recreio dos Bandeirantes, Rio de Janeiro. After months of threats, on 22 October at 9:00am council workers accompanied by heavily armed civil and military police, began bulldozing a commercial district that has existed for over twenty years, destroying five shops. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 196/09 Index: AFR 46/001/2010 Issue Date: 05 February 2010

Thousands of people in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, are no longer facing eviction from their market stalls and homes. Amnesty International has recently received formal notification that the threat of forced evictions had been withdrawn. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 348/09 Index: ASA 41/013/2009 Issue Date: 23 December 2009

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A mob with official backing is attempting to evict nearly 200 Buddhist monks and nuns from a monastery in central Viet Nam. The group have been sheltering there since they were evicted from another monastery in September, by a similar mob. [ Lire la suite » ]