Lizana Fenelon holds up her arm to show the skin irritations unsanitary living conditions in the camp. Camp residents beat pans and scraps of metal in protest of forced evictions. Fifteen camps threatened with forced expulsion all over Port-au-Prince simultaneously beat pots and pans, or "bat teneb," demanding a moratorium on expulsions and an immediate solution to inadequate shelter while hurricanes loom..The groups' press release says, "The government must immediately provide humane alternatives to the muddy, dangerous, unsanitary and brutal living conditions by verifying ownership titles, and nationalizing by decree all empty and idle lands in the hands of large landowners... We refuse to participate in your election while under tarps, while being evicted from tents, without respect for our basic rights. We're asking for houses, to which we have a right. This is no gift, it is our right under article 22 of the March 29, 1987 Constitution, which guarantees the Haitian state provide decent lodgings to all its citizens."."The law is perfectly clear," according to human rights attorney Mario Joseph. "There is a problem of political will and a problem of exclusion. The poor have been excluded from their land for years, and are now excluded from the process determining their rights to lodgings."
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