Hancock, Lords of Poverty, 1989. Imagine being woken up in the middle of the night by a strange voice over a loud speaker demanding that you leave your home now. Military and police officers or local thugs pound at your door. You race to get your children and grab a few possessions. Your evictors enter your home.
Any resistance is meet by beatings with wooden bats.
You stand outside and watch your house dismantled and destroyed. This is the brutal reality of forced eviction. The following sections define forced evictions, the legal resources on forced evictions that view forced evictions not only as a human rights violation but also firmly places this violation within international law, the main of forced eviction, government obligations to prevent forced evictions and protect the right to housing, strategies to prevent forced evictions for governments and community groups, and how to use international procedures to prevent forced evictions. Please feel free to contact us if you have any comments or questions.