- Using Video to Fight Forced Evictions in the U.S. Forced evictions on stolen land during a global pandemic? That’s a reality facing nearly 30-40 million people in the U.S. who can’t pay their rent. Forced evictions have been happening on these lands since colonizers first arrived, terrorizing and displacing Indigenous communities. Today’s eviction crisis is only the latest in generations of compounding crises of […]
- In China, Victims Protest Forced Evictions Through Suicide Urbanization and economic growth are rapidly increasing in China, but often at the cost of people’s right to land. Some citizens are taking the drastic step of attempting suicide.
- Forced Evictions, Live Ammunition, and Video Documentation in Cape Town Videos have helped document the violence and abuse that has characterized a recent series of forced evictions in Cape Town. The raids on informal residential communities are raising serious questions about police conduct and the government’s protection of constitutional rights to housing.
- Stopping Bulldozers: Fighting Forced Evictions with Video From citizen journalists in India to audiovisual artists in Colombia, people are using WITNESS resources to strengthen their grassroots work in the fight against forced evictions and to empower more to get involved.
- Mapping Our Materials: The Forced Evictions Advocacy Toolkit Goes Global Highlights from Brazil, Burma, Colombia, Egypt, Philippines and Scotland on how the Forced Evictions Advocacy Toolkit is being used by activists, artists and communities. Part one of a two-part series.
- Human Rights Video Weekly: Food aid reaches Syria, Forced evictions in Myanmar As Syrian peace talks gets underway this week, footage from Syrian media activists and aid organizations assisting the evacuation of residents from Homs and the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus document the challenges and progress of efforts to reach communities under siege.
- Part 2: How 114 Videos Tell One Story about Forced Evictions in Rio We share findings of our curation project, bringing over 100 videos together to tell the story of forced evictions in Rio de Janiero.
- Can 114 Videos Tell One Story about Forced Evictions in Rio? A video curation project brings together over 100 powerful videos to show how forced evictions unfolded across Rio de Janeiro.
- UN Experts Demand Stop to Forced Evictions in India Eight UN experts called for an immediate halt to the construction of a large steel plant in Eastern India which will forcibly evict as many as 22,000 people.
- As Protests Rock Brazil One Year Before World Cup, a “People’s Cup” Celebrates Resistance to Forced Evictions Massive protests across Brazil started at frustration at cost of living hikes by the government but also include anger at forced evictions taking place in the lead up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
- As Brazil Marks One-Year Countdown to 2014 World Cup, Thousands Cope with Forced Evictions Thousands of Brazil’s residents struggle to rebuild their lives after being forcibly removed from their homes to prepare for the multi-billion dollar sports event.
- Forced Evictions Activist To Be Honored by U.S. Secretary of State Clinton The Global Leadership Awards honor and celebrate women leaders around the world who are the unsung heroines working to strengthen democracy, increase economic opportunity, and protect human rights. The awards were established by the organization Vital Voices Global Partnership, which Secretary Clinton co-founded in 1997. Tep Vanny joins a very distinguished group of internationally recognized women. The award ceremony will take place in April 2013 in Washington, D.C.
- People Before Profit: New Video on Global Forced Evictions New video People Before Profit – bringing communities across the world together to tell the global story of forced evictions. WITNESS has supported forced evictions campaigns for more than 10 years. During this time, these projects have amplified the voices of communities across the world. For World Habitat Day we are bringing many of these voices together for the first time to tell another story.
- NYTimes Reports on Forced Evictions in Rio, But Serious Questions Remain In December, we brought you a Video the Government of Rio de Janeiro Didn't Want You To See and showed you how our partner activists in Rio were confronting Olympics organizers on the forced evictions of poor communities in Rio ahead of the 2016 Olympics.
- Global Networks and WITNESS Unite Against Forced Evictions Today marks the first day of a six week period of focus on housing issues around the world called World Habitat Days. Collectively representing hundreds of organizations and thousands of activists, WITNESS, our partner the Habitat International Coalition, and 5 housing and land rights networks have organized the World Habitat Days to draw global attention and actions to housing issues around the world - as part of our larger focus on forced evictions.