Brazil: 500 families living without shelter

Index AI : AMR 19/014/2009
Date de publication : 26 août 2009
Catégorie(s) : Brésil

800 families were forcibly evicted from private land in the south of the city of São Paulo on 24 August; more than 500 families, including the elderly and babies as young as 1 month old, have only plastic sheeting to sleep under.