Please read the OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF TAIWAN Tsai Ing-wen from ITE-EA, asking the president to take the prevailing infringement of housing rights and the stigmatization of defending habitats from eviction seriously!
請閱讀2016東亞迫遷法庭對蔡英文總統的公開信,要求總統府正視人民的居住權與捍衛棲地權利持續受到危害的普遍現象!
These rights are conflicted with and even endangered by the new Urban Agenda, which is on the premise of unlimited growth of cities. However, the growth of new urban agenda is putting peace, human rights, the nature and commons at stake in different parts of the world.
這些對於居住權與棲地權利的侵害,是建立於無限制的都市成長,在國際上儼然形成「新都市議程」,而這類新都市議程的成長,是立基於世界各地不同角落持續以和平、人權、自然與共同體作為代價。
Read the LetterThe East Asian International Tribunal of Eviction will be held in Taipei, Taiwan from July 1st to 4th 2016. The composition of Jury will include the convenor and member for former UN Advisory Group on Forced Evictions, expert, concerned scholars and representatives from international/local organisations on human rights and forced evictions.
今(2016)年7月1日至4日間,將於臺灣舉辦「東亞迫遷法庭(ITE-EA)」。此次的審查委員,邀集到聯合國人居署前「強制驅逐問題諮詢小組」召集人及成員、長期關注憲法人權及迫遷議題的專家學者與國際/在地組織代表。