Habitants de l'Asie
Joyeux anniversaire AIH, en solidarité!
... est composée d'associations et mouvements sociaux d'habitants, communauté, locataires, propriétaires de son habitation, sans abri, de bidonvilles, colonies, coopératives, peuples indigènes et quartiers populaires des différentes régions du monde ...
Hundreds marched to the National Assembly requesting Cambodia Free from Eviction and Land Grabbing
Hundreds of families from more than a dozen communities joined local human rights groups yesterday as they rallied outside the National Assembly for World Zero Evictions Day, calling for an end to forced land evictions in Phnom Penh.
Cambodia, Boycott Blood Sugar
Land is life. Tell the sugar industry to stop bleeding Cambodian farmers by taking their land.
Cambodia, against evictions and in solidarity with BKL Housing Rights Defenders
Boeung Kak Lake under siege (2008-2012)
For the past five years, the Boeung Kak Lake community has been fighting against the private developer that filled the lake with sand causing serious flooding in the surrounding villages and forcing more than 3500 families to leave because their homes became uninhabitable. On May a peaceful demonstration was violently dispersed and 15 women were arrested. An international call for solidarity.
Cambodia, Sign-on to support Boeung Kak lake community - Free the 15!
Thirteen women representatives from the Boeung Kak Lake community in the capital, Phnom Penh, were sentenced to up to two-and-a-half years in prison after a summary trial. Two more community representatives who were waiting outside the courthouse prepared to testify as witnesses for the 13 women on trial.
A call for international solidarity: freedom for human rights defenders and justice for displaced inhabitants of Boeung Kak lake community
Derailed: Rehabilitation of the Cambodian Railway is Impoverishing more than 4.000 Families
Bridges Across Borders Cambodia has closely monitored the resettlement process and impacts of the GMS Rehabilitation of the Railways in Cambodia Project
. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is contributing $84 million in concessional loans and the Australian international aid agency AusAID is contributing $22.9 million in grants to this project, which stands to impact at more than 4000 families who live along the tracks.
Philippines, rapport sur les expulsions en 2011: un record d’expulsions enregistré depuis 1994
La police anti-émeutes et une équipe gouvernementale de démolition affrontent les habitants lors de la démolition de bidonvilles dans le village de Corazon De Jesus à San Juan City (11 janvier 2012).
Selon une étude menée par l’association pour le droit au logement Urban Poor Associates’ (UPA), l’année 2011 a connu le plus grand nombre d’expulsions enregistré depuis 1994. Entre les mois de janvier et décembre 2011, 14 744 familles, soit 73 780 personnes, ont été expulsées suite à 39 démolitions. 92 % de ces expulsions sont considérées comme illégales car elles ne satisfont pas aux critères définis par la Urban Development and Housing Act
(loi sur le développement urbain et le logement). Des violences ont eu lieu au cours de sept de ces démolitions.
NEPAL: Fears of violence during expected Kathmandu squatter eviction
Thousands of landless squatters turned out in protest (Photo: Naresh Newar/IRIN)
A Nepalese government development plan for Kathmandu could lead to violence as the authorities seek to evict some 40 squatter settlements with an estimated population of over 20,000 of landless squatters, the support group Lumanti say. “We are ready to kill ourselves to stop government bulldozers. This is a life or death situation,” said Saru Magar, a landless squatter, who has been living at Bansighat settlement in the city centre for over 30 years.
Inhabitants in Dhaka, en route to Rio+20
Part of the Inaugural session
During the SASF Shelter for the Poor have organized a seminar on the “Climate Change and Urbanization: Perspective Bangladesh” and have Coordinated a “Plenary” of the “Human Rights and dignity” along with other organisations (WAI Bangladesh Committee, PDAP, IPD, RHDS, DSK and PRATAY). More 100 people have attended this step to prepare the inhabitants participation in Rio+20 next June 2012.
Climate Change and Urbanization: Perspective Bangladesh
Water pollution slum Gulshan Lake, Dhaka, Rahman lrnirjhar
The inhabitants of Dhaka are 15 million, 40% of it is “homeless slum dwellers”, and in each year population is increasing by 1.1 million. Change can be happen only through a horrific change, when each of the building will be built with proper plan, if the in-city industries are relocated to a planned industrial zones, new residential areas will be built for the new comers, new parks, open spaces, play grounds will be created, roads will be wider, pollution will be reduced, then the city will be full of green.