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UN Special Rapporteur delivers report on the Right to Adequate Housing and the International Financial Crisis
May 29, 2009 The first report prepared for the Human Rights Council by the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Ms Raquel Rolnik, entitled "Promotion and Protection of all Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, including the Right to Development" was released on 9 March 2009 in Geneva.

The report's Summary states: "In view of the current crisis in the housing and financial sector, the Special Rapporteur decided to devote this thematic report to the consequences of certain economic, financial and housing policies and approaches that have seriously impacted on the right to adequate housing in the past decades and have contributed to the present crisis".

English and Spanish language versions of the report can be downloaded here:  Continued…
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Joint Media Release: Lapindo Mudflow Disaster, Indonesia

28 May 2009: On the third anniversary of the Sidoarjo mudflow disaster human rights groups have once again called on the Government of Indonesia to provide all affected persons with immediate assistance and rehabilitation.

Three years ago on 28 May 2006, a gas eruption at a PT Lapindo Brantas drilling site in Sidoarjo, East Java resulted in an upsurge of hot volcanic mud which continues to flow to date. The mud volcano, which on average discharges 150,000 cubic metres of mud per day (enough to fill forty Olympic-sized swimming pools), has submerged an estimated 15,000 land holdings.

The full statement can be downloaded below.
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12 January 2009: COHRE today issued a statement on the ongoing crisis in Gaza, entitled "European governments and citizens hold the key to imposing accountability on Israel".

The statement calls upon civil society, particularly citizens of European countries, to lobby their governments to immediately suspend negotiations to upgrade Israel’s relations due to its human rights violations, including aggression on the Gaza Strip and its economic blockade on Gaza.

The full statement can be downloaded below.
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Open letter on Boeung Kak Lake eviction, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

4 December 2008: COHRE, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Amnesty International and… Full Story »
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COHRE Statement on International Women's Day

11 March 2009: Salih Booker, Executive Director of the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), said "On this International Women's Day, we would do well to remember that women today are bearing the brunt of the world's current economic crisis, which is having a dire impact on the achievement of the human right to adequate housing all over the world. While the global media offers images of Western bankers and businessmen as the face of the crisis, we in the human rights community know that the real face of the crisis is not to be found on Wall Street. In reality, the global economic crisis is disproportionately impacting those who already have the least, and it is women who today are the overwhelming majority of the world's poor."

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