New Housing and Land Rights Violations Map 2007–2009

New map launched for the International Housing and Land Rights Day 2009

 

On the occasion of International Housing and Land Rights Day (Habitat Day), 5 October 2009, HIC-HLRN has produced it annual map of global violations with a report of findings from the Violation Database on discrimination as a factor in housing and land rights violations.

Go to the HLRN website: http://www.hlrn.org/ or click here to consult the map.

This map is a product of Habitat International Coalition`s Housing and Land Rights Campaign 2008 and HLRN`s Violation Database (VDB), documenting cases provided by HIC Members and other reliable sources through January 2007–September 2009. It reflects four of the most-common types of violations of the human right to adequate housing and land: (1) forced eviction, (2) demolition, (3) dispossession and (4) deprivation arising from privatization of social housing, land and services.

 

 

Civil Society Messages to the 9th Africities Summit

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