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This study was commissioned by GTZ PO Nord-Kivu, on behalf of UNHCR, DRC East. The objective of the study was to investigate the feasibility of low-cost housing as a permanent shelter solution for...
The long written history claims that disaster events have resulted worldwide in dreadful damages during the past thousand years. In 1999, Turkey faced two major earthquakes -7. 4 and 7. 2 Richter...
The consequences of living in hazard-prone areas were brought home by graphic television coverage of the hurricanes that devastated the Gulf coast of the USA in 2005. Hurricane Katrina, in...
The concept of human rights is increasingly being invoked in the context of humanitarian relief, often in reaction to the frustration of attempts to bring relief assistance to civilian populations...
Former Yugoslav socialist countries acknowledged the social impact of housing. Prioritising collective rights over individual ones, they considered housing and property as a social good rather...
This paper presents key insights that emerge from the case studies conducted by the Pakistan research group of the Swiss National Center for Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South. The core...
In April 2008 ICMC initiated a two-year project: Promotion of Access to Services and Protection for Vulnerable People in Northern Pakistan. Its design was shaped by the findings of an updated...
This update marks six months since a massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra triggered the worst natural catastrophe in living memory. Within this relatively short period of time, a great deal...
The housing crisis in Haiti constitutes a grave violation of human rights. A majority of Haitians live in overpopulated urban centers, shanty towns or under-developed villages that failto meet...