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Violator Award - Beijing Municipality / BOCOG
Joint Award made to Municipality of Beijing and the Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games
GENEVA, 5 DECEMBER: Beijing Municipality and the Beijing Organising Committee of the Olympic Games named Housing Rights Violator for widespread evictions and displacements
The Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) has jointly named the Beijing Municipality and the Beijing Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG) one of three Housing Rights Violators of 2007 for the eviction and displacement of over 1.25 million people. Each year, COHRE presents its Housing Rights Violator Awards to three governments or other institutions guilty of particularly serious and pervasive housing rights violations in the preceding year. COHRE has issued these awards since 2002. This year the Beijing Municipality and BOCOG jointly share the Violator Awards with Slovakia and the “State Peace and Development Council” (SPDC) of Burma. |
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