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Please see news clippings as attached herewith on the cyclone.

(14 to 21 October 2007)

IAI is committed to supporting this action and to strengthening its alliance with the anti-debt movement and social movements that fight for human rights and work towards building another possible world.

As part of the World Zero Evictions Days 2007 campaign, a wide variety of national and international institutions are organizing a workshop in Santo Domingo

During the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, several dozen public-housing residents and activists marched to the headquarters of the Housing Authority of New Orleans.

Throughout the whole of the summer of 2007, the Russian capital has been the scene of pitched battle in at least 15 neighbourhoods.

KARACHI: International capital is desperately looking for a home.

Under the banner, "If another world is possible, another U.S. is necessary," 10,000 civil society activists gathered in Atlanta, Georgia Wednesday for the beginning of the first U.S. Social Forum.

Some 4,000 people live in poor conditions in shanty towns on the outskirts of Paris. But an integration programme plans to lift 30 Roma families out of misery.

People in Communities of color have lost billions of dollars in home equity, and today they are losing their homes on a massive scale

With caravans bringing in approximately one thousand five hundred community leaders from around the country, CONAM’s day in Brasília was characterized by a protest march through the Esplanade of Ministries, public hearings at the ministries and a ‘blitz’ on Congress.

The New G-local Leaders for Eviction Free Zones and Cities

Vacant property can completely eradicate homelessness in NYC

UN-HABITAT’s Advisory Group on Forced Evictions launched its second report during the 21st Session of the Governing Council.

A convergence meeting of urban social movements playing a role in the right housing and to the city was held in Nairobi under the framework of the WSF, jointly proposed by the HIC and IAI.
A International Seminar: the Popular Fund for the right to Land and Housing.
The Coordinating Committee of the IAI held its annual meeting in which participated some of the chief members of the technical support committee.

On 15 March 2007, the Mayer of Bobigny, Catherine Peyge, will sign three decrees to ban evictions and the cutting off of water and electricity supplies in the commune. They will be submitted to the préfecture of Seine-Saint-Denis on the same day.

After a spectacular action in support of the homeless at the St. Martin canal in Paris that was launched on Christmas Eve 2006 and reported on by all the media, and the death of Abbé Pierre, the housing issue has been dominating the 2007 presidential campaign.

As riots hit Copenhagen after the demolition of a legal youth culture house, Barcelona considers its 300 squats in the look up to May’s municipal elections.

THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT CANCELS THE EU HOUSING MINISTERS’ MEETING; THE INHABITANTS’ ORGANIZATIONS CONFIRM THEIR COMMITMENT TO THE STRUGGLE FOR HOUSING RIGHTS

Out of the blue, the EU Housing Ministers’ meeting in Barcelona (16-17 October 2006) has been cancelled by the Spanish government.

This decision is regrettable because it wastes an excellent opportunity for all parties involved, both institutions and grass roots organizations, to dialogue and deal decisively with the housing crisis which is currently affecting all European countries.

The idea is not only to let the EU Housing Ministers hear the cry of pain of the homeless, badly housed and those under threat of eviction but, also to put forward concrete proposals.

The IAI would have liked to raise these issues on behalf of inhabitants, listen to what the Ministers had to say and place directly before them the analysis and proposals that had been worked out at the European level.

This we will do in any case by publicly circulating our "Open letter" in the hope that the appointment has only been postponed. Let all the Ministers know this: the housing rights movement will always be with them.

The next stage: the preparatory meeting for European General States for housing and city rights (Paris 2 February 2007).

Click here to read the Appeal for the European General States for the Right to Housing and the City.

Read the open Letter.

In London preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games are in full swing. And although the mistakes of the previous Games should be avoided, plenty of problems still lurk in the foreground.

On October 27, 2006, the agreement cancelling the bilateral debt owed to Italy by Kenya was signed, thus freeing resources that are meant to go to programs concerned with reducing urban and rural poverty. Rather than pay the debt, Kenya will invest 44 million Euros into its public policy, starting now and until 2016.
The representatives of the W Nairobi W! Campaign, which is tied to the Zero Evictions Campaign run by the International Alliance of Inhabitants, are greatly satisfied that they have achieved a solid goal that offers a real alternative to the inhabitants of Nairobi’s slums who are being threatened with eviction.