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Bhutanese refugees Jhapa, Nepal
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What is COHRE?
The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) is an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit human rights organisation established in 1994 in the Netherlands and now based in Geneva, Switzerland. We are one of the principal agencies focusing on the human right to housing and on forced evictions at the international level. We work closely with an extensive network of partner organisations
and community activists around the world, without whose involvement and support COHRE's work would not be possible.
COHRE works at all levels – from grassroots assistance to communities fighting forced
eviction or slum conditions, to standard-setting at international institutions such as the
United Nations – to resist and prevent forced evictions, strengthen the protection and
promotion of housing rights and increase awareness of these fundamental rights as key
components of international human rights law.
COHRE's work is carried out in part by eight regional and thematic programmes.
Regional programmes currently exist in Africa, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region. Thematic programmes focus on women and housing rights, housing and property restitution, housing rights litigation, the right to water and monitoring and preventing forced evictions. Each programme has a dedicated section in this website
detailing priority issues and recent housing rights developments. To find out more please visit COHRE at Work.
COHRE's work also includes a busy training and education programme and extensive research and publications activity. We regularly undertake fact-finding missions to investigate and seek remedies for housing rights violations around the world and
provide legal advice and advocacy in a range of forums for organisations and
communities fighting for their right to adequate housing. For more information about COHRE's activities please visit the COHRE at Work section.
COHRE's main office and International Secretariat is located in Geneva (Switzerland).
COHRE also has offices in Porto Alegre (Brazil), Duluth (US), Accra (Ghana), Melbourne (Australia), Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
More detailed information on COHRE as an organisation is available elsewhere in this
section. If you have any queries about us that haven't been answered by the information on this website, please let us know by emailing cohre@cohre.org. For further information about housing rights and forced eviction issues more generally, please take the time to
explore the other sections of our website.
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