Descrição
Forced evictions currently affect 123 million people forcibly displaced, 73% of whom were located in low and middle-income countries (UN-Habitat), and states have clear legal obligations to prevent and remedy them. Yet, despite decades of advocacy and a well-established international human rights framework, prevention and remedy have effectively fallen off the global agenda. The voices of those most affected remain largely absent from the spaces where decisions are made, and accountability for gross human rights violations remains the exception rather than the ruleThis activity is a strategic intervention lab designed to shift community organizing from a reactive emergency footing to a proactive, systematic defense mechanism. It treats the threat of forced evictions as a systemic failure of tenure security and human rights.Objectives· Recall the legal definitions and cumulative human rights standards· Understand the drivers of forced evictions· Unpack civic actions to prevent, resist and remedy forced evictions· Co-create policy recommendations and actionable next steps