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Urgent Action: Hundreds left homeless by forced evictions in Uganda
Ugandan soldiers have been forcibly evicting communities in the Apaa area. So far, more than 250 homes have been burnt.
Urgent action outcomes 21 May 2018 -
Urgent Action: Palestinians at risk of losing residency status
Four members of the PLC are at risk of losing their permanent residency status in Jerusalem.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Apr 2018 -
Urgent Action: Dozens left homeless after forced eviction in Swaziland
Dozens of people, including 33 children, were left homeless after their homes were demolished using bulldozers
Urgent action outcomes 12 Apr 2018 -
Urgent Action: Indigenous Yukpa people in Colombia face eviction to Venezuela
Yukpa indigenous people that crossed to Colombia are facing eviction and threat of being sent back to Venezuela.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Mar 2018 -
Urgent Action Update: New threats against indigenous community in Kenya
The Sengwer Indigenous community are facing new threats of eviction
Urgent action outcomes 16 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action: Indigenous community in Kenya forcibly evicted
Kenyan authorities are forcibly evicting the Sengwer Indigenous community from their ancestral home, the Embobut forest.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action: Bedouin community at risk of explusion
The Israeli army has issued an expulsion order which will forcibly evict 58 Palestinian Bedouin families in the area of J
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Nigeria: The human cost of a megacityWith a population of 23.3 million, Lagos is a city struggling to cope. As a result, a huge number of people are being forcefully evicted from their homes in a violent campaign led by the authorities.
14 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action: Romani families left homeless, others at risk in Italy
Around 600 Romani individuals fear destruction of their homes in the informal settlement of Germagnano in Turin, northern Italy. At least 7 families were left homeless after being forcibly evicted and their homes demolished.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Hundreds at imminent risk of forced eviction in Turkey
Hundreds of residents in neighbourhoods of the Sur district in Diyarbakır province, south eastern Turkey, are at imminent risk of forced eviction. For over a month now, their water and electricity supplies have been cut off, in an apparent attempt to…
Urgent action outcomes 03 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Forced evictions continue in Lagos, NigeriaOver 4000 residents of Otodogbame waterfront community in Lagos, Nigeria were on 26 March forcibly evicted from their homes by Lagos State officials. No notice was issued to the residents prior to the forced eviction. Several residents were injured…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
UA good news: Alternative housing provided for ten families in Mongolia
Ten families from Building #3 in Ulaanbaatar (UB), previously facing homelessness during this severe winter, have been provided with alternative housing.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: Thousands foricbly evicted, more at risk in Nigeria
Over 30,000 thousand residents of Otodo Gbame, Lagos State, south west Nigeria were forcibly evicted by policemen and Lagos state government officials on 9 and 10 November.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Nov 2016 -
UA good news: 267 homes face no further threat of evictions in Nigeria
The Kaduna State Urban Planning and Development Authority (KASUPDA) has not effected 21 day demolition notices issued on 12 August 2015 to 267 houses in communities in Zaria City, including Kofan Doka, Kofan Kibo and Anguwan Alkali.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: Activist held incommunicado since 2 September in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian human rights activist Salim al-Maliki has been arbitrarily detained and held incommunicado for four weeks.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Cambodian housing rights defender released
Two Cambodian housing rights defenders were tried and convicted on 22 August for “insult of a public official”.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Colombian peasant farmer communities risk displacement
Miguel Briceño, a leader of the peasant farmer community El Porvenir in central Colombia, has been threatened as attempts to forcibly displace the community intensify.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: At least a thousand houses at risk of demolition in Nigeria
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria has threatened to demolish houses in Gbagyi Villa, Kaduna State, North West Nigeria.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Romani families at risk after forced eviction in Italy
Around 75 Romani families were forcibly evicted on 21 June from the camp of Masseria del Pozzo, in the town of Giugliano in Campania, near Naples.
Urgent action outcomes 29 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Guarani Kaiowa risk imminent forced eviction in Brazil
The Apika’y Indigenous People, one of the most vulnerable of the Guarani Kaiowá communities of Mato Grosso do Sul state, are once again facing forced eviction. The judge who issued the eviction order only notified the community five days in advance, and…
Urgent action outcomes 26 May 2016
