Tag Archives: evictions

Human rights groups say that in the approach to the Paris Olympics, police have stepped up evictions and deportations of people living and working on the streets of the capital and surrounding suburbs. They say law enforcement is targeting the city’s most vulnerable, in what some activists describe as social cleansing. CBC | World News

The Scottish government has “in effect rubber-stamped rent increases from April”, it has been claimed. Daily Express :: News Feed

Human rights group Amnesty International says more than 30,000 people were evicted last year from their waterfront homes in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, by the local authorities, as the wealth gap grows and more residents are living in informal settlements. CBC | World News