The International
Alliance (IAI) of Inhabitants has proposed
Monday, October 3rd 2005 as the start of the
World "Zero Eviction" Days. The
initiative aims to arouse an increasing number of
well coordinated, non-violent initiatives at all
levels throughout the month of October.
It proposes the following actions:
1) To urban social movements:
- Denounce the threat of forced evictions and
demolition
- Block evictions
- Demand the use of empty accommodation
- Fight privatization and the deregulation of the
housing sector.
2) To supporting authorities or government:
- Declare their territory "eviction-free
zones"
- Declare their territory free of commercial
deregulation pacts
- Approve coordinated action plans for "zero
evictions and housing rights"
- Set up Popular Funds for Land and Housing.
TAKE ACTION
If you are interested to join the campaign, you
can
- tell your network about it.
- urge sympatric authorities to take action
- organize your own events, be it local, regional
and national in forms of marches, sit-ins, press
conferences, delegations, forums, broadcasts etc.
BE A PART OF
THE NETWORK:
IAI will set up a System of Alert in Solidarity
against the violation of housing rights. Tell
them as soon as possible about any initiatives
you are planning by retuning them the form. [FORM]
BACKGROUND
IAI is a coalition of social movement against
violation of housing rights. It develops
relationships of exchange and collaboration with
institutions, for instance, the IAI supports
associations to present their own Dossiers on
housing right violations within their own
countries to the United Nations.
According to IAI, 15% of the world population is
under threat of eviction for a series of reasons:
foreign investment in countries with heavy debts,
privatizations of the housing sector,
deregulation of rented accommodation, ethnic
cleansing, wars and occupation, as well as
commercial speculation of natural disasters.
For more information, please visit http://www.habitants.org/article/articleview/1492/1/395/Related Urgent Appeals:
INDIA: Respect Rights of Slum
Dwellers, Devise Resettlement Plan
INDIA: Eviction of Women and
Children from Shelter
INDIA: Tribal Huts Demolished,
Families Rendered Homeless
INDONESIA: Stop Forced Eviction
of the Urban Poor
PAKISTAN: Stop Forced Eviction of
Lyari Nadi Communities in Karachi
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