Asia
The Asia region is home to approximately 3.8 billion people, or over 60 percent of the world’s population – a significant proportion of whom live in endemic poverty and struggle to realise their basic human rights.
Violations of the human right to adequate housing – including poor housing; lack of access to water and sanitation; forced evictions; displacement induced by development, conflicts and natural disasters; homelessness and discrimination – are massive in scale and extremely persistent.
Often, it is economic motives that prompt authorities to forcibly evict people from their homes. In Cambodia, for example, government agents last year forcibly evicted poor families from a redevelopment site in the capital Phnom Penh after years of harassment and intimidation.
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