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216-220 of 287 matching articles 5 20 100 All Are partial solutions to housing and transport one step forward or one step back? Andrew Fleming • 6 March 2012 Lots of 'solutions' get presented at events like the Urban and Housing Development conference in Cape Town, but can a model be sustainable if it excludes large parts of the city? Relocation policies do not excuse forced evictions, still a denial of human rights Kerwin Datu • 5 July 2010 Forced evictions are usually illegal, yet they are increasingly routine for many governments, assisted by international institutions. Rather than helping governments justify evictions, institutions need to steer governments towards true 'voluntarism'. The right to proximity: understanding the World Urban Forum's "Right to the City" Kerwin Datu • 22 March 2010 The World Urban Forum opens today in Rio de Janeiro, under the slogan "Right to the City: bridging the urban divide." Recent advances in urban economics allow us to see that this is a fundamental part of how cities function, not a radical concept. US leaving unfinished sewage system behind in Fallujah IRIN • 15 July 2010 A sewage treatment plant promised by the US to residents of Fallujah is being left unfinished as the military withdraw, with "not a single house connected to the system". Uganda residents insist "we are citizens; we are not squatters" Benjamin Bradlow / Slum / Shack Dwellers International • 10 May 2010 Residents of Kikaramoja in Jinja, Uganda's second largest city, have completed an enumeration project in the hopes of staving off a relocation attempt. They claim they have owned the land since before Ugandan indepedence. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58
