As World Habitat Day focuses on the state of the housing rights situation across the globe, here are case studies from cities in Cambodia, Brazil, Italy, Israel and Angola.
Tens of thousands of displaced people are still unable to return home after the Georgia-Russia conflict. Amnesty International collected eye-witness accounts from survivors of the hostilities and took photographs of the war's aftermath.
The Sri Lankan government’s order for United Nations and
non-governmental aid workers to leave the war-torn northern Wanni
region, could further endanger tens of thousands of displaced persons
trapped between the two parties to the conflict.
Displaced civilians and refugees who fled during the conflict, as
well as those who remained in the areas where hostilities have taken
place, are in continued need of humanitarian assistance. Some also remain vulnerable to ethnically motivated attacks.
The Sri Lankan military and the opposing Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE) are putting displaced civilians in danger as fighting continues in northern Sri Lanka.
Thousands of families who fled the recent fighting between Sri Lankan forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) must be allowed to move to safer areas and to receive necessary humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said today.
Twenty years after the brief flowering of people power in Myanmar,
however, little has improved for the millions of people still suffering
under repressive rule.
Amnesty International today condemned the forcible removal by police of more than 700 people, including refugees and asylum-seekers, from the Glenanda ("Rifle Range Road") displacement camp near Johannesburg to Lindela Repatriation Centre.
