Roma evicted from Belgrade shanty town

The authorities started evicting Roma from a shanty town in New Belgrade on Wednesday.

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Wednesday, 07.03.2012.

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The authorities started evicting Roma from a shanty town in New Belgrade on Wednesday. Praxis NGO claims that international standards are not being respected in the eviction process. Roma evicted from Belgrade shanty town According to an earlier plan, the evicted Roma will get housing in “container settlements” in Makis, Rakovica, Mladenovac and Barajevo, which had been formed after Roma families had been evicted from a shanty town under the Gazela Bridge. 15 out of 33 families from the New Belgrade shanty town will get new homes. “The remaining families, who are treated as voluntary returnees to Kosovo and whose houses there have been reconstructed, will be evicted on March 16 and therefore they have not been offered the alternative housing,” Praxis’ legal counsel Danilo Curcic has stated. He, however, warned that some families could not return to Kosovo due to security reasons. According to the NGO’s data, three families have refused the housing in collective centers in Raca Kragujevacka and Gamzigradska Banja. The NGO stated earlier that the eviction of Roma was not conducted in accordance with the international standards. They repeat that international documents on human rights, primarily the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), guarantee right to housing and alternative housing in cases of forced eviction. “The result of the forced evictions should not be homeless people who are additionally exposed to violation of other human rights and the alternative housing needs to be adequate,” the NGO stated in a release. Praxis noted that 33 Roma families lived in the shanty town in New Belgrade and that almost half of them had been displaced from Kosovo and that a large number of them were deprived of fundamental human rights. The NGO pointed out that they had not been entered in the birth registry, that they did not exercise their social and health protection rights and were unable to find jobs. A Roma woman is seen in the shanty town (Tanjug) Beta Tanjug

Roma evicted from Belgrade shanty town

According to an earlier plan, the evicted Roma will get housing in “container settlements” in Makiš, Rakovica, Mladenovac and Barajevo, which had been formed after Roma families had been evicted from a shanty town under the Gazela Bridge.

15 out of 33 families from the New Belgrade shanty town will get new homes.

“The remaining families, who are treated as voluntary returnees to Kosovo and whose houses there have been reconstructed, will be evicted on March 16 and therefore they have not been offered the alternative housing,” Praxis’ legal counsel Danilo Ćurčić has stated.

He, however, warned that some families could not return to Kosovo due to security reasons.

According to the NGO’s data, three families have refused the housing in collective centers in Rača Kragujevačka and Gamzigradska Banja.

The NGO stated earlier that the eviction of Roma was not conducted in accordance with the international standards. They repeat that international documents on human rights, primarily the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), guarantee right to housing and alternative housing in cases of forced eviction.

“The result of the forced evictions should not be homeless people who are additionally exposed to violation of other human rights and the alternative housing needs to be adequate,” the NGO stated in a release.

Praxis noted that 33 Roma families lived in the shanty town in New Belgrade and that almost half of them had been displaced from Kosovo and that a large number of them were deprived of fundamental human rights.

The NGO pointed out that they had not been entered in the birth registry, that they did not exercise their social and health protection rights and were unable to find jobs.

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