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Cambodian Government Attempts to Silence Work on Forced Evictions
International non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have written to 35 foreign ministries to review donor aid if the Government of Cambodia passes a law severely restricting the activities of NGOs in the country.
WITNESS
September 1, 2011
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Forced Evictions Training in Rio: Social Activism as Samba
Whether it was talking social movement strategy and video action plans or singing samba underneath the stars, an overwhelming energy of solidarity and brotherly and sisterly love pulsed through WITNESS’ video advocacy training in Rio.
WITNESS
August 10, 2011
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Human Rights Watch Award Goes to Cambodian Monk Fighting Forced Evictions
Human Rights Watch has awarded a prestigious Hellman/Hammett grant to the Venerable Loun Sovath for his human rights defender work supporting communities facing forced evictions and land-grabbing in Cambodia.
WITNESS
June 28, 2011
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Threats Increase Against Monk Fighting Forced Evictions in Cambodia
Since 2009, our partner organization in Cambodia, LICADHO, has been using video to document forced evictions and land-grabbing. We met the Venerable Loun Sovath, a Buddhist monk, through our work with LICADHO. His tireless campaigning for those at risk of forced eviction in Cambodia, has repeatedly put him at risk.
WITNESS
June 27, 2011
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New Videos: Four Communities on Forced Evictions in Rio
As part of our ongoing campaign on forced evictions in the name of development, I was just in Brazil to meet with our partners and plan our upcoming video advocacy workshop in Rio de Janeiro.
Priscila Néri
June 20, 2011
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Community Complaint Leads to World Bank Conceding Role in Forced Evictions
The municipality of Phnom Penh is not only forcibly evicting communities from land, it is also removing 90% of the city’s major lake to build luxury apartments and hotels. To do this, water and silt are being pumped into Boeung Kak Lake, purposefully flooding nearby homes in several feet of murky water and causing other homes to collapse into floodwater. Approximately 20,000 people are effected.
WITNESS
March 12, 2011
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Video Interview: How To Resist Forced Evictions in Venezuela
In this interview (one more from our World Social Forum 2011 series from Dakar), Elizabeth Santos of the Red Metropolitana de Inquilinos y Movimientos Sociales de Caracas (Network of Tenants and Social Movements in Metropolitan Caracas) talks about the different tactics allied networks have used to resist and fight forced evictions in Caracas, Venezuela.
Priscila Néri
February 14, 2011
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Interview: Activist on Root Causes of Forced Evictions in Zimbabwe
My colleague Ryan Schlief and I are here in warm and sandy Dakar attending the 2011 World Social Forum along with about 75,000 other people from over 130 countries. We traveled all this way to meet with key allies in our forced evictions campaign, learn more about how activists around the world are using video in their advocacy on forced evictions, and brush up on our (very) rusty French.
Priscila Néri
February 9, 2011
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Mexico Training on Forced Evictions
A quick update from the WITNESS training in Mexico City in association with the Habitat International Coalition (HIC)- Latin America. We've been holed-up for nine days solid in a convent (cheap, good food, peaceful atmosphere, nightly curfew) training a range of human rights defenders either from or working with communities whose rights are being compromised or violated by dam mega-projects.
Sam Gregory
January 31, 2011
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Brazil: Megaevents and Forced Evictions
For the past 20 years, the roughly 450 families that live in Vila Autódromo, a low-income community in western Rio de Janeiro, have been fighting off eviction.
Priscila Néri
November 23, 2010
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Video Training Targets Forced Evictions in Cambodia
In Cambodia, WITNESS has focused the past two years on supporting LICADHO's efficacy to produce and strategically distribute advocacy videos on forced evictions in the name of development - the same subject as our new global campaign.
WITNESS
October 7, 2010
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Forced evictions in focus at the Americas Social Forum
More than 15,000 Indigenous people at risk of being forcibly removed from their lands to make way for the construction of the Inambari Hydroelectric Center in Peru, a series of six dams in the Peruvian Amazon that will cost $15 billion dollars and, when ready, send approximately 80% of its energy to support large industries in neighboring Brazil.
Priscila Néri
September 6, 2010
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Forced Evictions in the Name of Development
In an earlier blog post my colleague Sam Gregory introduced our new focus on gender-based violence. Our second focus area is what is known as development-induced displacement, or the forced eviction of people and communities in the name of development.
WITNESS
July 14, 2010
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Forced evictions in Guatemala: whose land is it anyway? [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online – this post was written by Gavin Simpson] Land ownership and occupation are complex and highly contentious issues in many parts of Latin America, and the tropical, resource-rich plains of northeastern Guatemala are no exception. On the one hand, legal title to land […]
WITNESS
March 4, 2007
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This Neighborhood in Colombia Says “No” to Evictions
Residents of the La Cascada neighborhood are currently resisting evictions and demanding government intervention to address the issue of deteriorating housing in a holistic way.
Jackie Zammuto
March 26, 2015
