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Burmese villagers flee armed forces slash-and-burn tactics
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Violator Award - Burma SPDC
Award made to Burma's State Peace and Development Council
GENEVA, 5 DECEMBER: State Peace and Development Council of Burma named a Housing Rights Violator for the mass displacement of more than one million civilians
The “State Peace and Development Council” (SPDC) of Burma has been named one of three Housing Rights Violators of 2007 by the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) for the mass displacement of more than one million civilians from their lands and homes.
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 SPDC of Burma shares the Violator Awards with Slovakia and the Beijing Municipality / Beijing Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG).
COHRE named the SPDC of Burma for its persistent, systematic and unjustified violation of the housing rights of its citizens and for its ongoing failure to apply international human rights standards.
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| Media release by COHRE partner NEED |
Download a Media Release by COHRE's partner NEED, based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on COHRE's Burma report and the awarding of a Violator Award to the ruling SPDC
 download pdf [en]
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