Policy and Legal Perspectives on Actualizing the Right to the City in Nigeria
Article from the HIC publication “Cities for All: Experiences and Proposals for the Right to the City”, Sugranyes A. y Mathivet C., HIC, Santiago, 2010, page 267
UN Expert warns of mass forced evictions in Nigeria
“Forced evictions can only be justified in the most exceptional cases and in full compliance with international human rights law,” said today United Nations independent expert Raquel Rolnik, while expressing her concern at the mass evictions planned by the Nigerian River State Government, which could leave hundreds of thousands of people homeless over the coming year.
Urgent Action: Hundreds of Thousands to be Evicted in Port Harcourt, Nigeria (Case NIG–FEDN 060809)
Port Harcourt, Nigeria authorities to evict communities,rendering hundreds of thousands homeless