Housing justice: how can people-centred justice principles address forced evictions?
An online expert discussion on how people-centred justice can help stop forced evictions.
In Indonesia, eviction has forced people to carry their idea of home to new places. Watch a short film on how the construction of an anti-flooding wall has worsened one community's quality of life (Photo: Rujak Center for Urban Studies)
Forced evictions are one of the most acute manifestations of housing injustices, often affecting the most marginalised groups in society. They involve the permanent or temporary removal of an individual or group, against their will, from the place where they live without access to adequate protections.
Forced evictions disproportionately affect marginalised populations and often exacerbate cycles of poverty, vulnerability and risk.
This 90-minute webinar will launch a new IIED report that explores a 'people-centred justice' approach for collective efforts to stop and prevent forced evictions. The report showcases research conducted by IIED in partnership with Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies.
The report offers insights into strategies for achieving people-centred justice and recommends pathways for action, drawing from collective anti-eviction struggles in Brazil, South Africa and North America.
The webinar will feature a keynote presentation that draws on the case studies in the paper.
After the presentation, a panel of experts will respond to the research findings and discuss implications for the justice field. Audience members will also have an opportunity to ask the presenters and panellists questions.
This event links the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 16.3 (access to justice), 11.1 (adequate, safe, and affordable housing), and 10.3 (equal opportunity and reduced inequalities of outcome), recognising that reducing inequalities is essential to advancing both adequate housing and equal access to justice.
Speakers
- Toni-Shae Freckleton, director, New York Liaison Office, UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)
- Koldo Casla, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing
- Themba Mahleka, associate director, Pathfinders, NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC)
- Alexandre Apsan Frediani (moderator), principal researcher, IIED
- Camila Cociña, senior researcher (housing justice), IIED
- Paula Sevilla Núñez, researcher (housing justice), IIED
- Daisy Ribeiro, Terra de Direitos, Brazil
- Edward Molopi, Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI)
- Tara Raghuveer, director, Tenant Union Federation
- Jeronimo Pareja Cardona Pareja-Cardona, program officer, Pathfinders, NYU Center on International Cooperation, moderator
- Nate Edwards, program officer, Pathfinders, NYU Center on International Cooperation
The webinar has been co-organised by the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies programme and IIED. The Pathfinders programme is convened by 46 governments, and works with over 100 partners across civil society, the United Nations, and regional and international organisations, and is hosted by the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.
About attending
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Contact
Camila Cociña ([email protected]), senior researcher, IIED
