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Country Reports
Reports of fact-finding missions etc
Country reports provide an opportunity for COHRE to investigate and analyse the status
of housing and related rights in specific countries. Following country visits, COHRE
issues detailed reports designed to draw attention to the worst housing rights problems
and provide recommendations on improving the situation on housing rights and forced
evictions in the country concerned.
All hard copies are US$10 plus postage. Hard copies can be ordered directly from COHRE: see ordering publications
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| Shelter from the Storm: Women’s Housing Rights and the Struggle against HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa (2009) |
This report examines the housing, land and property rights of women in the context of HIV/AIDS, and sets forth key policy recommendations
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| Untitled: Tenure Insecurity and Inequality in the Cambodian Land Sector (2009) |
Report by COHRE, Bridges Across Borders South East Asia (BABSEA) and Jesuit Refugee Services (JRS)
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| Hostage to Politics: The impact of sanctions and the blockade on the human right to water and sanitation in Gaza (June 2008) |
A report examining the severe retrogression in the human right to water and sanitation in the Gaza Strip due to measures taken by both Israel and western states since Hamas's victory in the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006.
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| New COHRE Publications on Bhutan |
Hoping to Return Home: Housing, Land and Property Restitution Rights for Bhutanese Refugees and Displaced Persons: A COHRE Country report (2008)
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Everyone has a right to return to their homes in Bhutan: Explaining the right to return and the right to housing, land and property restitution. A COHRE leaflet (2008).
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Hoping to return home: Applying the Pinheiro Principles for Bhutanese Refugees and Displaced Persons. A COHRE booklet (2008)
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| Displacement and Dispossession: Forced Migration and Land Rights in Burma |
COHRE Country Report on Burma - December 2007
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| El Derecho a la Vivienda y a la Tierra frente a los Proyectos de Desarrollo - los casos de Mexico, Honduras y Guatemala |
Este informe evidencia la relación entre la implementación de proyectos de desarrollo de infraestructura, energía y turismo - como los en el marco del Plan Puebla Panama -, los cambios en las leyes y políticas sobre derechos a la tierra y a la propiedad y sus impactos en la población campesina y en comunidades indígenas de Mexico, Honduras y Guatemala.
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| In Search of Equality (2007) |
A survey of law and practice related to women's inheritance rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Includes reports from Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia and Palestine.
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| "Desalojos forzados en América Latina: los casos de Brasil, Argentina, Colombia y Perú" (2006) |
Esta publicación es una versión más extensa del informe presentado por COHRE a la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y contempla un análisis de las causas y las consecuencias de los desalojos para la población, incluso las minorías étnicas y las mujeres.
> Su objetivo es informar e impulsar a los gobiernos de los países de América Latina a incorporar en su legislación interna y en sus políticas públicas los estándares internacionales en materia de derechos humanos y prevención de desalojos forzados.
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| "Listening to the Poor, Housing Rights in Nairobi, Kenya" (2006) |
In July 2004, at the invitation of Kenyan NGO's, COHRE conducted a fact-finding mission and met with residents of Nairobi's informal settlements, the Government of Kenya and other stakeholders. This mission report, originally released for consultation in 2005 has been subsequently revised and extended.
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| "Any Room for the Poor? Forced Evictions in Johannesburg, South Africa" (2005) |
This report is the product of a 3 month fact-finding mission by COHRE to investigate forced evictions in Johannesburg. The report evaluates housing provision and evictions practices in light of South Africa's obligations under international and national law, as well as the developmental challenges facing the City of Johannesburg.
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| Ruling Palestine (May 2005) |
A history of the legally sanctioned Jewish-Israeli seizure of land and housing in Palestine. COHRE and BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights.
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| "Defending the Housing Rights of Displaced Persons in Colombia" (2005) |
Colombia's internally displaced persons (IDP's), estimated by UNHCR to number between 2 and 3 million, are currently in a dire predicament. This report analyses the housing situation of these IDP's in terms of their housing rights.
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| "El Derecho a La Vivienda En Argentina" (2004) |
Desafios para la promocion del derecho a la vivienda y a la tierra en Argentina.
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| "Housing Rights in Nicaragua: Historical Complexities and Current Challenges" (2004) |
COHRE, in partnership with the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN), undertook a fact-finding mission to Nicaragua in 2002. This joint report addresses the stark contrast in the current housing rights situation as conditions for the poorer segments of the population are appalling.
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| "Continuing the Struggle for Justice and Accountability in Guatemala" (2004) |
Cohre in partnership with Rights Action, undertook and extensive fact-finding mission to Guatemala in July 2003. This report addresses the issues of reparations for the forced eviction of Maya Achi communities in the context of the Chixoy Dam construction.
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| "The Human Right to Housing in Australia" (2004) |
Produced for the Housing is a Human Right Project. A collaborative project of VCOSS, Shelter Victoria, COHRE and Women's Housing Ltd.
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| "Bringing Equality Home: Promoting And Protecting Inheritance Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa" (2004) |
This report, a practical and legal overview, focuses on one area in which the denial of land and housing rights is most blatant - inheritance.
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| "Housing Rights in West Africa: Report of Four Fact-Finding Missions" (2004) |
Four fact-finding missions conducted by COHRE's Africa Programme to Nigeria, The Gambia, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
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| "Housing Rights in Brazil: Gross Inequalities and Inconsistencies" (2003) |
COHRE undertook an extensive fact-finding mission within Brazil during 2002. This report concludes that the status of the right to houing in Brazil is a study of contrasts.
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| "Violence: The Impact of Forced Evictions on Women in Palestine, India and Nigeria" (2002) |
For many women the home is the single most important place. It is often linked to basic survival. This report looks at how the practice of forced eviction has an acute impact on women's lives.
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| "Land, Housing and Property Rights in Zimbabwe" (2001) |
This report presents findings and conclusions of a COHRE fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe to investigate the land crisis, land reform and resettlement policies. It looks at recent government failure to ensure that housing, land and property rights are protected.
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| "We Didn't Stand a Chance: Housing Rights Violations in Bangladesh" (2001) |
This publication presents findings, conclusions and recommendations of a joint Fact-Finding Mission, by COHRE and ACHR, to Dhaka in 2000 to investigate large-scale forced evictions taking place.
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| "Better Late Than Never: Housing Rights in East Timor" (2000) |
This publication encourages the governing structures in East Timor to adhere fully to the norms of human rights law as a means of ensuring that the housing rights of all Timorese can be rapidly transformed into reality.
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| "Housing Rights in Latvia" (2000) |
COHRE undertook a fact-finding mission to Latvia in 1999 with the aim of understanding the housing and eviction problems facing this former Soviet Republic.
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| "Moving Forward and Maintaining the Past: The Status of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Solomon Islands" (1999) |
In 1999, COHRE carried out a human rights fact-finding mission to the Solomon Islands focusing on the two most densely populated provinces of Guadacanal and Malaita.
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| "Still Waiting: Housing Rights Violations in a Land of Plenty, The Kobe, Japan Earthquake and Beyond" (1999) |
In 1995, a four person delegation of Habitat International Coalition undertook a fact-finding mission in Kobe, Japan to investigate allegations of housing rights and human rights abuses related to the period following the January 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake.
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Reports Available in Hard Copy Only
The following reports are only available in Hard Copy. To purchase a copy go to the Ordering Publications page.
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Violations in Chiapas, Mexico in the Context of Counter-Insurgency Low Intensity Warfare Against Mainly Mayan Sectors of the Population (1998)
St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (November 1997)
Planned Dispossession: Palestinians, East Jerusalem and the Right to a Place to Live (September 1995)
Prima Facie Violations of Article 11 (11) of the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by the Government of the Philippines (November 1993)
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