Advisory Group on Forced Evictions Visit to New Orleans
July 26-31 2009
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International Advisory Group on Forced Evictions Investigates New Orleans Housing Crisis (pdf)
July 21st 2009, New Orleans - Members of the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (AGFE), will arrive in New Orleans next week to investigate the forced eviction of thousands of residents as part of the city's ongoing post-Hurricane Katrina redevelopment. International experts Leilani Farha from Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation and Leticia Osorio from Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) will be leading the visit. They will be joined by a team of local experts... |
| Advisory Group on Forced Evictions Fact-Finding Mission to New Orleans Schedule (pdf) |
AGFE Factsheet (pdf)
AGFE is conducting a fact-finding mission to New Orleans, including a visit to Washington, DC to speak with federal officials. After the visit, UN-HABITAT will publish a report of the experts' findings on the UN-HABITAT website... |
International Human Rights Obligations and Post-Katrina Housing Policies (pdf)
Briefing paper to the Technical Experts for the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions United States Mission July 26-31, 2009, by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
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Primer for AGFE Fact Finding Mission to New Orleans (pdf)
Background documentation for the mission participants.
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Press from AGFE Visit |
Daily Video Blog from the Mission
Together with media partners WITNESS, we are hosting daily video updates from the road on the mission to New Orleans and DC. |
GRITtv: Four Years On, Housing Rights in New Orleans, 8/3/09
An interview with AGFE-members Leilani Farha, Tiffany Gardner and Sam Jackson. |
The San Francisco Bay View: UN advisors host town hall on forced evictions in New Orleans, 7/30/09
A group of advisors who will report to the director of the U.N. Habitat agency held a town hall meeting in New Orleans on Sunday, July 26, to hear from resident experts and other community members about housing rights violations along the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina... |
The Times-Picayune: New Orleans situation is grim, experts say, 7/30/09
A United Nations advisory group leader said Wednesday that the panel had met many New Orleanians discouraged by squalid or tenuous housing situations.
"They feel like they've been abandoned by their government," said Leilani Farha, director of a low-income-housing advocacy group in Ontario, Canada, who led a five-member entourage to New Orleans this week to interview people who have lost affordable housing... |
The Institute for Southern Studies: UN group examines post-Katrina housing crisis in New Orleans, 7/30/09
Activists in New Orleans have used the international human rights framework as a way to address the lingering issues in post-Katrina rebuilding, such as the right to housing. In 2008 UN experts on housing and minority rights took up the call, urging the United States to stop the demolition of public housing and protect the human rights of African-Americans disproportionately affected by Hurricane Katrina.... |
The Times-Picayune: United Nations group gets a look at post-Katrina housing woes, 7/28/09
Mickey Palmer, who traveled the world for 20 years as a merchant seaman shipping out of the Port of New Orleans, welcomed international visitors on Monday morning to his home, an abandoned building scattered with Katrina-era debris.
As a cool wind blew through a large open window, Palmer, 57, puffed on a cigarette and tried to stay positive.
"This is a good place to squat, as we call it, " he told international housing expert Leilani Farha, who led a small entourage to New Orleans this week to interview people who have lost affordable housing and others who may lose their homes... |
NOLA Indymedia: Advisory Group Hosts Town Hall on Forced Evictions, 7/26/09
Sunday, July 26 - A group of advisors who will report to the director of the UN Habitat agency held a town hall meeting in New Orleans today to hear from resident experts and other community members about housing rights violations along the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina.
The Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (AGFE) is made up of leading NGO experts who gather information on housing and urban development issues internationally. As advisers to the UN they investigate instances of human rights violations and communicate with the UN Habitat agency, the official United Nations organization chartered with advancing housing justice across the globe... |
| WDSU New Orleans' Channel 6 News: Advisory Group Listens to Housing Issues, 7/26/09 (video clip) |
| ABC26 News: Forced Evictions: Glynn Boyd Reports, 7/26/09 (video clip) |
The Times-Picayune: UN Group to Examine New Orleans Housing Issues, 7/25/09
A United Nations advisory group is scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on Sunday to interview New Orleanians who have lost affordable housing and others who face the loss of their homes... |
Change.org: UN to Investigate forced Evictions in Post-Katrina NOLA, 7/22/09
Courtesy of the domestic economic human rights organization NESRI, I see that the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions will spend next week in New Orleans, investigating three key eviction issues: "the demolition of public housing; the displacement of Mid City residents to make way for the Louisiana State University hospital; and growing homelessness." It is the UN's third visit to the city in 3 years; the tour will begin with testimony from displaced residents, including their visions for rebuilding the city... |
New Orleans CityBusiness: U.N. advisers to investigate New Orleans housing problems, 7/22/09
"We hope to create space for dialogue between city officials and community members," Tiffany Gardner said. "Whenever I go to New Orleans and bring people with me there is always this shock of 'Wow, so little has been done...'" |
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