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Latest News From the columns:
Social movements Wed, Sep 17 2008 Malmö At the European Social Forum (ESF) 17th to 21st Sept. 2008 in Malmö (Sweden) "reclaiming spaces" will co-organize two events:
Seminar: RECLAIMING THE CITY: Resisting evictions, demolitions, gentrification, privatisation, speculation…
Thursday, Sept. 18 2008, 9:30-12:30at Rosengård Värner Rydénskolan
ASSEMBLY OF URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Saturday, Sept. 20 2008, 9:30-12:30at Enskifteshagen, Tält 2
>> Read more >> zur Rubrik Rights Wed, Jun 06 2007 Rostock, MS Stubnitz, Stadthafen by and with:
WG Habitat at Forum Environment and Development - Mob e.V./Strassenfeger (Homeless, Berlin)- Habitat International Coalition (HIC)- International Network of Urban Research and Action (INURA) - Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) - Local Organizers of Community Organizations in Asia (LOCOA) - MNML, Brazil - Osaka Homeless Associations - Droit au Logement(DAL) - NO VOX
and (6 pm) Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur for the right to housing
>> Read more >> zur Rubrik Habitat policies Habitat International Coalition (HIC), the "Habitat Working Group at German NGO Forum Environment and Development" as well as the "Ruhr Tenants Forum" have criticized that housing is not an issue at the agenda of the German EU council presidency. "There is no sustainable urban development without right to housing", NGOs say. >> Read more >> zur Rubrik Habitat & Economy Wed, Jun 06 2007 Rostock, MS Stubnitz, Stadthafen with Sebastian Müller, Andrej Holm and Knut Unger (WG Habitat Forum Environment and Development, INURA, tenants' associations), R. M., (Local Organizers of Community Organizations in Asia - LOCOA/India), Vesna Tomse (urban.lab, Zurich), Wade Rathke (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - ACORN/USA), Alfredo Rodriguez, (SUR/Chile), Ana Sugranyes, (Habitat International Coalition - HIC General Secretary) and others... >> Read more >> zur Rubrik Habitat & Society Over the past 30 years, the French banlieues have been calling for justice. Concrete demands have been expressed through demonstrations, marches, days of action, public meetings, hunger strikes, and mass revolts. The response from governments of all political hues that have all come and gone, since the Ministry for Urban and Social Development was set up 15 years ago to address social exclusion and ghettoisation in housing estates, has been an array of initiatives with their fair share of acronyms and so-called miracle cures: ZEP (Education Support & Development in Targeted Zones), DSQ, ZUP, ZAC & ANRU (Urban Development Zones…) >> Read more >> zur Rubrik |
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