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 awareness concerning the human rights implications of forced evictions, and to provide easy-to-use information, tools and materials which can be used by grassroots groups, NGOs, lawyers and the people themselves in attempts to prevent planned evictions or to obtain restitution or compensation after a forced eviction has been carried out.