Italy: Many children among dozens left homeless by forced eviction in Rome

Headline Title: Italy: Many children among dozens left homeless by forced eviction in Rome 09 July 2014 The forced eviction of some 40 people – half of them young children, including several babies – from a Roma settlement in a Rome suburb this morning is a blatant violation of international human rights law and standards that has left numerous families homeless, Amnesty International said. At around 7:30AM, local police and municipal authorities moved in on the makeshift camp of shacks and tents in the park of Val D’ala, in the Italian capital’s north-eastern suburbs.…

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