UA: 32/12 Index: EUR 11/001/2012 Issue Date: 1 February 2012

Nine homeless Romani families temporarily settled by the Albanian authorities in tents on private land have been threatened with imminent forced eviction. No adequate alternative housing has been offered to these families. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 30/12 Index: AFR 20/004/2012 Issue Date: 1 February 2012

Over 670 people have been forcibly evicted and their homes destroyed in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, to enable the construction of a hotel to take place. This is despite reassurances from the local Mayor that they would be allowed enough time to find alternative accommodation. The former residents of the site are now sleeping under nearby trees. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 7/12 Index: ASA 23/002/2012 Issue Date: 11 January 2012

Twenty-four women and six children forcibly evicted from the Borei Keila area of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, were arrested on 11 January during a peaceful protest. They are being arbitrarily detained, and are at risk of ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 259/11 Index: EUR 39/009/2011 Issue Date: 19 September 2011

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Following protests by human rights organizations and foreign embassies the planned forced eviction of Roma from Baia Mare, Romania on 5 September appears to have been put on hold. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 163/11 Index: AMR 13/003/2011 Issue Date: 19 August 2011

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An Argentinean court has ordered that any attempts to evict the Quilmes Indigenous community of Colalao del Valle must be suspended. This decision protects four indigenous families from imminent forced eviction from their homes in the northern Argentinean province of Tucumán. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 245/11 Index: EUR 45/013/2011 Issue Date: 15 August 2011

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Up to 86 Irish Traveller families living at Dale Farm face a forced eviction following legal notice from the local authority. The proposed forced eviction would leave many Travellers living at Dale Farm homeless or without adequate alternative housing. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 147/11 Index: ASA 20/020/2011 Issue Date: 20 May 2011

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FU UA: 22/11 Index: EUR 46/018/2011 Issue Date: 29 March 2011

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Forcible eviction of families from “temporary” accommodation in the Chechen capital Grozny in Russia has continued. The Prosecutor’s Office has found no violations of the right to housing. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 236/10 Index: MDE 15/028/2010

On 22 November, Israeli authorities demolished approximately 30 structures in the Bedouin village of al-‘Araqib in the Negev in southern Israel for the seventh time since July. The residents – citizens of Israel with a long-established claim to the area – are trying to rebuild their homes yet again but face increasing hardship as winter approaches. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further Information on UA: 225/09 Index: AMR 19/021/2009 Issue Date: 18 December 2009

The families who suffered a violent forced eviction in August from the Olga Benário settlement in the south of São Paulo, have won a major victory in their long fight for housing rights. [ Lire la suite » ]