The government of Turkmenistan must immediately put an end to forced evictions and illegal demolitions, compensate the victims and give them access to adequate alternative housing urgently.
Forced evictions are evictions that are carried out without adequate notice or consultation with those affected, without legal safeguards and without assurances of adequate alternative accommodation.
If the evictions go ahead they have the potential to violate a range of residents' rights including adequate housing, water, sanitation, health and education.
Kenya's government is failing to deliver on its promise to comply with international human rights law regarding evictions and until it does, there should be an immediate end to all forced evictions.".
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights has reaffirmed“that the practice of forced eviction constitutes a gross violation of human rights, in particular the right to adequate housing”.
They were there with 100 other Shanghai residents attempting to ask the congressional representatives to address the issue of forced evictions and other human rights abuses in the city.
Beijing resident Ye Guoqiang jumped from the Jinshui Bridge in an attempted suicide to protest how the Chinese government forcefully evicted him from his home to make way for Olympic construction.
The evictions were carried out despite an earlier High Court order issued in August 2014 protecting the Arnold Farm residents from arbitrary eviction under Section 74 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe.
However, a year after Tripoli fell to revolutionary fighters, armed groups have continued to commit human rights violations including unlawful killings, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture and forcible displacement.
The Urgent Action Network has over 150,000 members and tackles around 400 cases a year, addressing not only the torture but also death threats, the death penalty,‘enforced disappearance', forced repatriation, extrajudicial execution, secret detention, forced evictions and a range of other human rights violations.
In one case highlighted in the report, 300 families were forcibly evicted from their homes in Luisha when a Chinese company, Congo International Mining Corporation(CIMCO), was given the mining rights to the site in the centre of the town.
In these ten years, we have also witnessed the eruption of a systemic crisis that has expanded into a food crisis, an environmental crisis, and financial and economic crises, and has led to an increase in migrations and forced displacement, exploitation, debt levels and social inequities.
The network issues about 400 new cases and up to 300 updates each year, addressing not only torture but also death threats, the death penalty,'enforced disappearance', forced repatriation, extrajudicial execution, secret detention, forced evictions and a range of other grave human rights violations.
Through its Demand Dignity campaign, launched in May 2009, Amnesty International is calling on governments globally to take all necessary measures, including the adoption of laws and policies that comply with international human rights law, to prohibit and prevent forced evictions.
Park Rae-goon is one of the most prominent human rights defenders in South Korea, and for over 30 years has been working on issues such as forced eviction, labour rights, migrant rights and freedom of expression.
(Guatemala City) In a new report published today, Amnesty International urged the Guatemala authorities to stop evictions of rural communities until the present legislation and practices, which are fundamentally unfair, biased and flawed, are overhauled.
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