Reports
Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-Based Displacement & Evictions
Provider: UNHCR
Explores the human rights implications of forced evictions. Describes the obligations and potential strategies of governments before, during and after events that cause evictions.
A more recent version of these guidelines may be on the UNHCR site.
Guidance on Profiling Internally Displaced Persons
Provider: IDMC
Report offers an overview of IDP profiling methods, including guidance on why, when, and how to profile IDPs for what purposes.
Monitoring Disaster Displacement in the Context of Climate Change
Provider: IDMC
The reports two main aims are to estimate the impact of climate disaster-related displacement in 2008 and to propose a methodology for monitoring disaster-induced displacement.
Human Rights and Forced Evictions in the POSCO- India Project
Provider: ESCR-Net
Report entitled: "The Price of Steel"
This report was created in 2013.
Report on Security of Tenure and Housing Rights
Provider: UNHCR
This report explores the connection between tenure insecurity and forced evictions/displacement. Rolnik argues that we are facing an international tenure insecurity crisis and criticizes the predominant approach to tenure amongst most countries: individual freehold ownership.
World Urban Forum III Statement
Provider: Miloon Kothari
2006 Statement by Miloon Kothari on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living.
Unjust Compensation
Provider: Center for the Sustainable Use of Natural and Social Resources
This report utilizes the HLRN Eviction Impact Assessment Tool to assess property damage and loss in Kandhamal India. The study attempts to enumerate the costs of the violence and categorizes the losses as 1) loss of possessions, 2) loss of livelihoods, and 3) loss of food and water sources, and makes a set of recommendations to the government of Odisha.
Under the Radar: Internally Displaced Persons in Non-Camp Settings
Provider: Brookings Institute
This report documents the challenges facing IDPs who do not live in camps and are often out of the public eye. Non-camp IDPs live dispersed in communities in a wide range of living situations and make up the majority of the world’s IDP population.
Unheard Voices: The Human Rights Impact of Land Investment on Indigenous Communities in Gambella (Ethiopia)
Provider: Oakland Institute
Documents the human impacts of the “villagization program” in which small-scale farmers are displaced and forcibly relocated to make room for land consolidation by government intermediaries and private land investors.
Told to Move: Forced Eviction of Roma (France)
Provider: Amnesty International
Documents the continuous forced eviction of Roma communities in France despite new policy initiatives aimed at improving the eviction and rehousing process.
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
Provider: UNHCR
The report focuses on forced evictions and illustrates how the phenomena has continued since the Commission on Human Rights adopted Resolution 1993/77 that recognized force evictions as a gross violation of human rights.
Report on Dams
Provider: World Commission
2000 Report on development-caused displacement.
Housing Rights Legislation: Review of International and National Legal Instruments
Provider: UN Housing Rights Program
This document focuses on the link between housing and human rights in international perspective. It discusses both international law, resolutions and other declarations, and maps the relevant legislation and protections at a national level that can be used as tools.
Pushback: Local Power and Global Realignment
Provider: Rights and Resource Initiative
This report takes stock of the current status of forest rights and tenure globally, assesses the key issues and events of 2010 that shape possibilities to improve local rights and livelihoods, and identifies key questions and challenges that the world will face in 2011.
Put a Number on It
Provider: Habitat International Coalition
Quantifying Costs, Loses, and Damages from the violation of housing and land rights. Global analysis based on HLRN data.
Women From Mining Affected Communities Speak Out
Provider: International Women and Mining Network
This report features women who provide first-hand accounts of the destructive impacts of the extractive industries on their health, livelihoods, and communities.
Protecting Public Housing Tenants in Australia from Forced Eviction
Provider: Justice Kevin Bell
Contrasts international legal norms on the right to adequate housing with Australian legal practices.
Report from 2012 regarding development-based displacement specifically.
Statutory Recognition of Customary Land Rights in Africa
Provider: FAO Legal Office
This study provides guidance on how best to recognize and protect the land rights of the rural poor. This publication investigates various over-arching issues related to the statutory recognition of customary land rights. Three case studies of land laws in Botswana, Tanzania and Mozambique are analysed extensively in content and implementation, concluding the with recommendations and practical considerations on how to write a land law that recognizes and formalizes customary land rights. It cautions lawmakers that even excellent laws may, in their implementation, fall prey to political manipulation and suggests various oversight and accountability mechanisms that may be established.
Housing, Land, and Property Issues and the Response to Displacement in Libya
Provider: UNHCR
Documents the issues facing IDPs forced from their homes by the 2011 uprising. These communities face tenure insecurity and a lack of services while also confronting violence when they try to return to their former neighborhoods.