L’hébergement de familles déplacées par des familles locales peut être un phénomène spontané ou planifié, une première étape ou une étape intermédiaire dans le processus d’hébergement des déplacés ; il commence souvent avant que les acteurs humanitaires n’arrivent et prend fin…
La guerre en Ukraine a provoqué le déplacement de 1,6 million de personnes à l’intérieur du pays et le déracinement de 1,4 million de personnes supplémentaires ayant fui vers les pays voisins depuis le début du conflit en 2014[1]. Après…
There has been a growing realisation that resolving housing and property claims forms a key element of any successful repatriation, and a determination that ethnic cleansing, arbitrary displacement and unlawful secondary occupation of homes must be reversed and not allowed…
Between 1992 and 1995, conflict displaced half of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s population of 4.4 million. While a million people fled to other countries, principally to other republics of the former Yugoslavia, at least a further million were internally displaced. In…
These contentious projects, implemented by the American Refugee Committee and the International Relief Committee, have had far reaching implications. In an ideal world, conditions conducive to return would have been established prior to return of the displaced. Donors, however, were…
This housing crisis came after a decade of widespread violation of housing rights. Throughout the 1990s, discrimination against the Albanian majority was manifested in irregular tenancy arrangements, arbitrary forced evictions and restrictions on property transactions: factors which substantially contributed to…
The campesino was born with his land; the war took it away. The land is his destiny - life and death. We will not stop being displaced until we have a plot of land to sow and live on. Vidal…
In 1990-91, about a sixth of Bhutan's population was expelled from their homes from the southern districts bordering India. Today over 96,000 reside in seven refugee camps in Nepal, while another 30,000 live outside these camps in Nepal and India.…
As a result of activities at local, national and international levels, these rights are finally being recognized and included on the political and legal agendas of national governments and regional and international human right bodies. This article focuses on one…
There are many conceptual areas of convergence between this and other forms of displacement, notably internal displacement, ethnic cleansing, expulsion, forced removals, house demolition, land expropriation, population transfer, resettlement and slum clearance. The broader term ‘forced evictions’ is used most…