Category: Housing and urban rights

Human Rights Watch

Housing and urban rights

“Look for Another Homeland” Forced Evictions in Egypt’s Rafah

Between July 2013 and August 2015, Egyptian authorities demolished at least 3,255 residential, commercial, administrative, and community buildings in the Sinai Peninsula...

Amnesty

Housing and urban rights

‘We are not dirt’: Forced evictions in Egypt’s informal settlements

More than 12 million people live in Egypt’s sprawling informal settlements (slums). Over the years, the authorities have treated these people with...