Legal Empowerment in Informal Settlements
This book investigates grassroots, community-led justice strategies – known as legal empowerment – being used to promote the human rights of people living in informal settlements in the Global South. Residents of informal settlements, also known as slums or favelas, encounter a complex array of...
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| description | This book investigates grassroots, community-led justice strategies – known as legal empowerment – being used to promote the human rights of people living in informal settlements in the Global South.
Residents of informal settlements, also known as slums or favelas, encounter a complex array of human rights violations; from systemic discrimination by public officials, to threats to physical security from forced evictions, or arbitrary arrests, to a lack of access to basic services such as housing, water, sanitation, and education. This book shows how grassroots justice organizations around the world are working with residents to defend their rights and secure more dignified living conditions. Drawing on original empirical research across 10 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the book demonstrates how legal empowerment can put residents at the centre of holistic approaches to urban development and confront exclusionary and undemocratic systems of governance. The book encompasses practical recommendations and strategies such as rights-based approaches to informality, participation, community mobilization and litigation.
Bridging the gaps between the law on the books and the harsh realities of informality on the ground, this book will be an important read for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, working in realms of social and economic rights, access to justice and urban poverty and development. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1612222025-06-24T06:30:39Z Legal Empowerment in Informal Settlements Di Giovanni, Adrian Bercovich, Luciana Slums;Favelas;Urbanization;Urbanisation;Housing;Sanitation;Human Rights;Evictions;Buenos Aires;La Paz;Quito;Accra;Lagos;Nairobi;Rio de Janeiro;citizenship;COVID-19;Morelos;Delhi;Port Harcourt;Karachi;Dhaka;New Urban Agenda;Johannesburg thema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international law::LBBR Public international law: human rights thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSN Social work thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNT Social law and Medical law thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFC Poverty and precarity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities This book investigates grassroots, community-led justice strategies – known as legal empowerment – being used to promote the human rights of people living in informal settlements in the Global South. Residents of informal settlements, also known as slums or favelas, encounter a complex array of human rights violations; from systemic discrimination by public officials, to threats to physical security from forced evictions, or arbitrary arrests, to a lack of access to basic services such as housing, water, sanitation, and education. This book shows how grassroots justice organizations around the world are working with residents to defend their rights and secure more dignified living conditions. Drawing on original empirical research across 10 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the book demonstrates how legal empowerment can put residents at the centre of holistic approaches to urban development and confront exclusionary and undemocratic systems of governance. The book encompasses practical recommendations and strategies such as rights-based approaches to informality, participation, community mobilization and litigation. Bridging the gaps between the law on the books and the harsh realities of informality on the ground, this book will be an important read for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, working in realms of social and economic rights, access to justice and urban poverty and development. 2025-06-11T07:06:50Z 2025-06-11T07:06:50Z 2025-06-10T10:28:26Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/103405 9781040343364 9781003538806 9781032886282 9781032886374 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/161222 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103405/1/9781040343340.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103405/1/9781040343340.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003538806 10.4324/9781003538806 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040343364 9781003538806 9781032886282 9781032886374 Routledge open access |
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| title | Legal Empowerment in Informal Settlements |
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| topic | Slums;Favelas;Urbanization;Urbanisation;Housing;Sanitation;Human Rights;Evictions;Buenos Aires;La Paz;Quito;Accra;Lagos;Nairobi;Rio de Janeiro;citizenship;COVID-19;Morelos;Delhi;Port Harcourt;Karachi;Dhaka;New Urban Agenda;Johannesburg thema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international law::LBBR Public international law: human rights thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSN Social work thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNT Social law and Medical law thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFC Poverty and precarity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities |
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