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eviction

Eviction is the removal of someone from their occupation of land or property.

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Reports & Research
October 2015
Paraguay

La Asociación Campesina San Isidro del Jejuí está conformada por miembros de Federación Nacional de las Ligas Agrarias Cristianas, organización conformada por campesinos y campesinas en el Paraguay entre los años 1969 y 1974, que construyó un modelo de comunidad autosustentable con el sistema de tenencia asociativa de la tierra y de producción comunitaria en la denominada Colonia Jejuí.

Reports & Research
September 2015
Peru

La violencia política entre el Estado peruano y un grupo levantado en armas (PCP-Sendero Luminoso) obligó a los habitantes de Viscatámpata a un desplazamiento forzado para salvar sus vidas. El caso relata la historia del retorno y recuperación de la tierra abandonada en la provincia de Huanta, departamento de Ayacucho, Perú.

Reports & Research
August 2015
Asia
Bangladesh
Indonesia
India
Cambodia
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines

This report is a summary of the 2013 CSO Land Reform Monitoring papers in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and the  Philippines. It focuses on land conflicts including killings, harassments, land-related detainments, and evictions experienced in the seven countries.

Reports & Research
June 2015
Global

During the last few years, there has been a devastating wave of forced evictions of tribal communities from forest land around the country, which needs to be stopped as soon as possible. Unfortunately, recent reports suggest that forced evictions continue in many places, with unrelenting brutality. This note discusses the problem and presents recommendations for immediate action.

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
June 2015
Africa
Nigeria

This report aims to extract lessons on slum upgrading and involuntary resettlement policies and practices learned from the process of addressing the Badia East case, which involved complex interactions between affected people, NGOs, the Bank and Lagos State Government.

Legislation & Policies
May 2015
South Africa

The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) and the Minister briefed the Committee on the performance, outcomes and challenges of the Land Rights Management Facility, presenting the Fourth Quarter 2014 report, and also touching on the Extension of security of tenure (land) Amendment Bill.

Reports & Research
April 2015
Ethiopia

Over the past six years, the Oakland Institute has been at the forefront of exposing the social, economic, and environmental impacts of foreign land grabs in Ethiopia.

Reports & Research
March 2015
Paraguay

En junio de 2014 sucede algo inédito en la historia de la lucha por la tierra en Paraguay: una comunidad indígena (Sawhoyamaxa), logra la restitución de las 14.404 hectáreas de tierras que hace más de 20 años viene reclamando como suyas. En 2006, la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos había determinado que en justicia le pertenecía.