June 2014 | Our two-part blog series explores how and where activists are using the Forced Evictions Toolkit. As the the World Cup kicks off, WITNESS trains community activists in Brazil to safely and effectively document police violence.
May 2014 | WITNESS spoke with several groups and community leaders who are using video to document human rights abuses and retain the memory of neighborhoods facing eviction due to development and infrastructure projects in Colombia.
April 2014 | WITNESS traveled to Medellín, Colombia for the World Urban Form and the People’s Alternative Social Forum where we conducted a series of trainings and screenings with forced evictions activists and community members.
September 2013 | WITNESS and partners in Brazil launched the Rio Forced Evictions Video Curation Project which uses hundreds of videos to expose the common patterns of human rights violations before, during and after evictions.
June 2013 | One year before the World Cup, Brazilians stage massive protests against forced evictions, transportation hikes, and the soaring cost of living. The People’s Cup in Rio brings attention to the tens of thousands of Brazilians struggling with forced evictions.
March 2013 | Cambodian activist and LICADHO ally, Tep Vanny, receives the Global Leadership Award for her fight against forced evictions. The BBC features footage from LICADHO in a segment on forced evictions in Cambodia.
February 2013 | A statement to the government of Odisha condemns the violence and forced evictions taking place in communities resisting the effots of POSCO, a South Korean steel company, to develop a steel plant and port in the area.
January 2013 | WITNESS staff headed to Porto Alegre, Brazil for a 5-day training with 23 participants working on a campaign to ensure fair and adequate resettlement for the roughly 1,500 families facing forced evictions due to the 2014 World Cup.
November 2012 | In Mexico, WITNESS partners screened an advocacy video and provided testimony, along with many others, to a panel of judges at a pre-hearing on dams, leading to a supportive ruling from the panel.
October 2012 | WITNESS ally, Venerable Luon Sovath, was honored with the Martin Ennals Award for his tireless work supporting and filming communities fighting forced evictions across Cambodia.