Brazil
Urgent action (follow-up): Brazil. Indigenous community have days to leave land.
- Posté par : John le 2 February 2012
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 » ]
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Urgent action: Community at imminent risk of forced eviction
- Posté par : Barbel Conrads le 2 November 2010
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 » ]
Urgent action (good news): Justice close for 800 families in Brazil
- Posté par : Marie-Francoise le 21 December 2009
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 » ]
