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This Manual for Action contains a wide cross-section of international legal standards and other resources addressing the practice of forced evictions. It has been designed to increase popular...
This paper examines the human right to housing in Australia. Housing rights are among the most pervasive and best developed rights under international law. No country can claim to be free of...
This publication presents the findings and conclusions of a COHRE fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe to investigate the current land crisis. The report examines Zimbabwe's land reform and...
This report chronicles in outline form a half century of UN activity on housing rights. It provides a comprehensive overview of how, when and by what method this international organization has...
This report is the product of a three-month fact-finding mission conducted by the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE). COHRE is an international NGO which focuses on the right to...
This report urges both UNTAET and the emerging political structures of the nascent Government of an independent East Timor, including the CNRT (National Council for Timorese Resistance) and the...
With the 2008 Summer Olympics quickly approaching, Beijing has shifted into overdrive for the preparations as a steady flow of media and civil society reports have emerged on the ongoing evictions...
This booklet contains the full text of an important new international standard which outlines the rights of refugees and displaced persons to return not only to their countries when they see fit...
The AGFE report on evictions was presented by Leticia Osorio of COHRE, together with testimonies of specific evictions by Malick Gaye of ENDA Tiers Monde, Senegal and Cesare Ottolini of IAI. The...
The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of Jewish-Zionist and, later, Israeli actions to acquire lands and property in Israel/Palestine. The study documents laws and policies governing...