Operation restore the right to housing in Zimbabwe

Since international solidarity is called for, the International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI), in agreement with CHRA, and able to propose better coordination than other international networks, has relaunched the Zero Evictions Campaign.

Sign now to stop the evictions and restore the right to housing in Zimbabwe!

For several weeks the Zimbabwean government has carried out “Operation Murambatsvina”, which means “sweep away the garbage”, one of the largest demolition and eviction operations in recent memory.

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Daily update on the situation of Zimbabwe.

We, associations of inhabitants, international networks, voluntary groups, NGOs, public agencies, citizens of the world, are profoundly hurt by and denounce the ‘Murambatsvina operation’ (sweep away the garbage operation) launched by the government of Zimbabwe. Subscribe the appeal now!

22 July 2005 – Dubbing a report by his special envoy on recent evictions in Zimbabwe “profoundly distressing,” United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the Zimbabwean Government to stop immediately an operation that has done “a catastrophic injustice” to as many as 700,000 of the country’s poorest citizens.