VII International Human Rights Colloquium
annual capacity building and peer-learning event designed for young activists from the Global South
Brazil: Forced eviction at Prestes Maia in Sao Paulo, 468 families.
At the moment, the families got support for the next 6 months, when the local government will pay a rent for them. During this time, National and State governement have to buid with the movement a housing solution.
Invasions cause “Vale” to denounce Brazil to the OAS
The Vale do Rio Doce company submitted yesterday a denunciation to the OAS (Organization of American States) against Brazil.
Motion of rejection to the steel factory in the city of San Luis, Maranhao, Brazil
Such undertaking affects more than 3500 families that will be evicted for the said factory, violating the Right to Housing of several traditional communities of the island.
Brazil Landless Workers Movement
Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) in Portuguese, is the largest social movement in Latin America with an estimated 1.5 landless members organized in 23 out 27 states. The MST carries out long-overdue land reform in a country mired by unjust land distribution. In Brazil, less than 3% of the population owns two-thirds of the land on which crops could be grown.