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Press Release: Not too late to get it right on housing in Andaman and Nicobar say NGOs and tsunami survivors
22 December 2006
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Assessing Post-Tsunami Housing Reconstruction in Andaman & Nicobar Islands: A Peoples Perspective
22 December 2006
Joint report by Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology, ActionAid, Housing and Land Rights Network, and TRINet.
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Do Peoples Voices Matter: The Human Right to Participation in Post-Tsunami Housing Reconstruction
15 December 2006
Fact-finding report available online More...
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Press Release: Two years later, report highlights grave lapses in post-tsunami rehabilitation
15 December 2006
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Karachi’s Development and the Principles of Urban Planning
02 October 2006
To overcome problems created by massive rural-urban migration, industrialisation, increased trade, a phenomenal rise in the number of vehicles, and their related environmental and socioeconomic repercussions, More...
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Battered Islands: Report of a Fact-finding Mission to Tsunami-affected Areas of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
17 August 2006
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Press Release: Human Rights of Tsunami Survivors in Andaman and Nicobar Islands Being Violated
04 August 2006
Report Reveals Violations of Tsunami Survivor’s Human Rights to Housing, Land and Livelihood in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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Press Release on Public Hearing at Bhatti Mines
23 July 2006
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United Nations Rapporteur visits Bhatti villagers fighting eviction
11 July 2006
The struggle of residents of a village in Delhi against eviction received a boost today as the UN Rapporteur who met the agitating villagers said they have a strong case as the government has “excluded” private farmhouses in the area from demolitions.
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Our Land, Our Homes, Our Culture, Our Human Rights
01 July 2006
Proceedings of the Pacific Regional Consultation on Womens Rights to Adequate Housing and Land More...
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Interlinkages between Violence against Women and Womens Right to Adequate Housing
05 June 2006
Proceedings of the Asia Regional Consultation on The Interlinkages between Violence against Women and Womens Right to Adequate Housing More...
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Urgent Action Appeal: Mumbai Slum Demolition
16 May 2006
Demolition of 5000 houses in Mumbai, Slums Set on Fire, and Forced Eviction of Thousands: Multiple Violations of Human Rights More...
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Press Release: Forced Evictions and Displacement
05 May 2006
Human Rights Experts Strongly Condemn Forced Evictions and
Displacement in Delhi, Mumbai and the Narmada Valley
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NBA Urgent Press Release
29 March 2006
We will not accept the government’s silence!
We will put our lives on the line to stop the destruction of the Valley!
3 people begin indefinite hunger fast!
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International Human Rights Standards on Post-disaster Resettlement and Rehabilitation
23 February 2006
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Tsunami Response: A Human Rights Assessment
21 February 2006
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Press Release: Homelessness in Delhi
11 January 2006
HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS DEMAND URGENT ADOPTION OF MEASURES TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS IN DELHI
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Rally for Rights of Hawkers and Vendors, New Delhi
18 October 2005
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Post-Tsunami Relief and Rehabilitation: A Violation of Human Rights
18 October 2005
Report of fact-finding mission to Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka available online More...
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Press Release: Human Rights of Tsunami Survivors in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka Being Violated
06 September 2005
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Workshop and Public hearing on WOMEN AND LAND RIGHTS
10 June 2005
Allahabad, May 26- 27, 2005
A National Workshop and Public Hearing on Women and Land Rights were organized by the National Commission for Women in cooperation with Mahila Samakhya, More...
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National Convention on Development, Displacement and Rehabilitation held in New Delhi
09 December 2004
A National Convention on Development, Displacement and Rehabilitation was organised by a coalition of peoples’ movements and civil society groups, including HIC-HLRN, on November 30 and December 1, 2004, in New Delhi. More...
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HIC-HLRN URGENT ACTION APPEAL:
04 November 2004
A hundred women and children evicted from a night shelter in New Delhi, India
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UN Expert on Housing "Deeply Concerned" over Forced Evictions in Indian Capital
29 October 2004
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The Special Rapporteur on adequate housing of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Miloon Kothari, issued the following statement today: More...
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World Habitat Day Rally, New Delhi, India
04 October 2004
Around 1000 people, including slum and pavement dwellers, and homeless persons from around the country participated in a rally in New Delhi on World Habitat Day to demand their right to adequate housing, and to protest against forced evictions. More...
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World Habitat Day Statement by the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing
04 October 2004
Miloon Kothari The following statement was issued today by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on adequate housing, Miloon Kothari, on the occasion of World Habitat Day: More...
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Brutal Burning of Adivasi Houses in Narmada District
14 September 2004
Forest and police officials burnt down houses of adivasi families in the Bhorda Hamlet of Vadgam on 9 September. More...
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Oppose Raising SSP Dam Height to 122 Metres
13 September 2004
The Government of Gujarat has put forth a proposal to raise the height of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) dam to 121 metres.
Write to the Prime Minister to oppose this draconian proposition that will result in even more rampant devastation.
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Press Release
05 September 2004
PHILIP MATHEW, ASHISH MANDLOI AND MEDHA PATKAR Without Fanfare & Suppressing News, Sardar Sarovar Project Secretively
Generates Only 20 MWs!
The Cost of Failure is Borne by PAFs & State Governments, both.
Investors Wooed & Bluffed! New Bonds Amongst Financial Crisis.
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Civil Society Groups Pledge to Ensure India’s compliance with UN Human Rights Commitments
02 September 2004
SARP On 30 and 31 August 2004, civil society groups met to launch an alternate report on housing and land rights in India to the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights. More...
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To express solidarity with the people of Manipur
24 August 2004
pervin Demonstration on TUESDAY, 24 AUGUST 2004 from 4.30 pm onwards
At CHURCHGATE (outside platform no 4 opposite Western railway Headquarters.)
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Concern over indiscriminate dam construction in NE
24 August 2004
NORTH EAST TIMES Shillong, Aug 23 (UNI): Environmental and social activists fighting against indiscriminate construction of dams in the north-eastern region More...
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NE Hydel projects set alarm bell ringing
23 August 2004
MEGHALAYA GUARDIAN Shillong, Aug 22: Stiff opposition has begun against the proposed conversion the North East into power house to the country with plans for the construction of a total 168 dams with as output of 99,256 MW for planned distribution More...
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Five Dalit peasant activists sentenced to death in Bihar
23 August 2004
from All India Committee against Death Penalty In a 2:1 judgement the Supreme Court confirmed death sentence awarded by the Sessions Court in Gaya to four Dalit landless peasants. More...
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Urge for more proactive South-South cooperation on trade negotiations
20 August 2004
from CUTS International Islamabad, 19th August 2004: Cooperation among Southern countries through consensus building on trade and trade policy issues is essential More...
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AHRC seeks report from Karimganj DC, SP
17 August 2004
GUWAHATI, Aug 17 – The Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has called for a report from the Deputy Commissioner and the Superintendent of Police, Karimganj district, over the “systematic rape of tribal women and assault on tribal village chiefs,
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Sardar Sarovar Dam Overflows as Main Canal Ruptures
16 August 2004
While the dam overflow has gained international headlines, it has been little reported in the press that on the morning of August 3rd, the Narmada Main Canal—the “lifeline of Gujarat,” which is supposed to bring Narmada waters into the state—was severely More...
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Civil Society Organisations Reject World Bank Country Assistance Strategy
09 August 2004
In a National Consultation held in Delhi on August 7, 2004, several civil society organisations in India including major national alliances on mining, forestry, dams and hydro power, rejected the World Bank’s Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) 2004 on the More...
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