Forced evictions

Forced evictions

The Advisory Group on Forced Evictions monitors and identifies and, if so requested, promotes alternatives to unlawful evictions and where possible, facilitates a process of negotiated relocation.

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Zero Eviction Campaign Results and Perspectives

The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions noted that Women suffer immensely from forced eviction.

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I'll order an evac. You can remote detonate.

Mockingbird knows. Requesting immediate evac.

You have refused to vacate said property you are therefore, hereby commanded to immediately and forthwith vacate the real estate, buildings, outbuildings, and the premises, designated as Tract 3, 4, 9, 6, 4, 7,

We're never going to be rid of the problem of eviction

We were also impressed by the dignified manner in which the evacuation was carried out by the Israel Defense Forces.

Forced eviction of people or removing people from their homes or land, using violence is a main threat for life people's life

Unless anyone wants to clear out now... and not have anything more to do with Hill House.

For years, all of these actions have helped communities facing forced evictions

After a forced eviction, families are often left to fend for themselves, they have no place to go.

He noted that women living in extreme poverty face much greater risk of becoming homeless or living in inadequate housing and health conditions and bear the brunt of forced evictions, especially when evictions are accompanied by violence.

But the evictions took place in 2001, and the villagers are still living in extreme poverty.

The background to the evictions is not exactly straightforward.

Welcoming the establishment pursuant to Governing Council resolution 19 5 of 9 May 2003 of the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions and its commencement of the documentation of unlawful forced evictions in support of the Global Campaign for Secure Tenure,

Unlawful forced evictions and demolitions remain a bad practice of many Member States.

To this extent it is important to recognize protection from forced evictions as a distinct element of the right to housing.

It is very rare for people to get together and demand their rights, and resist forced eviction

Forced eviction normally is done by companies, private companies with the assistance of the local authorities or the government.

After all, Fukushima city is about 80km from the nuclear power plant, well beyond the 20km evacuation zone enforced by the government.

The army and the police have mobilized almost 50,000 troops to carry out evictions.

Only the next days and weeks will tell whether the evacuation proceeds peacefully or not.

Campaigns also addressed the scope and scale of forced evictions of the poor, which have raised widespread concern.

But I was told that only patients in need of emergency medical evacuation would be allowed out not students.

Forced evictions are when people are forcibly moved from their home, from their land, from their community, from their neighborhood, from their culture, against their will or desire for projects that often have no benefit to the communities that are being evicted.

The Committee recommends that the State party take immediate measures to enforce laws and regulations prohibiting forced evictions and ensure that persons evicted from their homes be provided with adequate compensation or offered alternative accommodation, in accordance with the guidelines adopted by the Committee in its general comment No. 7 (1997) on forced evictions.

He has also noted that eviction, which usually leads to homelessness, affects a large number of persons and that most of those affected are children, and has emphasized the existing link between evictions and violence, and the fact that homelessness increases the vulnerability of children to sexual abuse.

The Advisory Group is currently working on its first report to the Executive Director, documenting cases of pending or ongoing eviction.

The report helped to focus governmental attention on the problem and to generate assistance to poor persons left homeless by the evictions.

The requisitioning of possessions, forcible evictions, house destruction and the burning of civilian dwellings are more prevalent in counter insurgency areas.

The Special Rapporteur recommended that a moratorium on all forced evictions be imposed until a national housing and land policy is in place.

The Committee further notes with regret the lack of information about forced evictions and the number of homeless persons in the State party.

During the eviction, the most repeated pattern is use of force and violence, and violation of all sorts of fundamental and human rights that we can possibly imagine.

Among the community there are people older than 100 years who were born in the same place where they have lived until now , and who say that they won't allow themselves to be evicted .

The Committee is concerned about the number of forced evictions and demolitions that have occurred in anticipation of the 2008 Olympic Games to be hosted by the State party.

Costs associated with evacuations and Minimum Operational Residential Security Standards (MORSS) are also expected to increase significantly over previously budgeted levels.

Activists projected facts and figures about the consequences of hosting the mega sports event for Brazilians, such as forced evictions to make way for infrastructure construction.

The Committee to date has not received a satisfactory answer to its queries about the extent of the problem and the measures taken by the Government to protect all citizens against forced evictions.

As I franticly tap at my keyboard in the Ramattan Press Agency office, all the Palestinian reporters around me are wearing bullet proof vests and helmets.