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Housing and Land Rights Network

Statement: "India’s COVID-19 Lockdown: Human Rights Assessment and Compilation of State Relief Measures"

New Delhi, 5 May 2020

>> https://www.hlrn.org.in/documents/...

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Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) - Habitat International Coalition

The Coronavirus Pandemic and State Response in India

>> https://www.hlrn.org.in/documents/HLRN_COVID19_State_Response_India.pdf

Women Lead the Way: Monitoring and improving government services and facilities in Delhi

Nazdeek has partnered with communities in Delhi to develop effective and accessible strategies for monitoring essential services that they are legally entitled to, seek redressal of individual right violations, and, at a collective level, advocate for systemic improvements in the delivery of...

Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

Communities telling their own stories: a report on our experiences

Data and evidence can play a crucial role in advancing social justice and human rights. Yet ESCR-Net members have recognized that too often data production does not reflect the lived realities of peoples who face poverty, inequality and injustice.

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From deluge to displacement: The impact of post-flood evictions and resettlement in a city in India

The Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN), in collaboration with the Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities (IRCDUC), released a study...

Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

Bengaluru’s continuing inequity: an eviction impact assessment of Ejipura/Koramangala four years after its demolition

The Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) collaborated with two other organizations, Fields of View and the Forum against EWS Land Grab, to conduct a study and publish an impact assessment. The purpose of this is to highlight the real extent of the losses and costs incurred...

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Gender issues at the New Development Bank

The Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (PWESCR), recently published a report on BRICS, an acronym for a political/...

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Ekta Parishad proposes new campaign for poor people: Jai Jagat 2020

Ekta Parishad is preparing to launch a new campaign for poor and marginalized people called Jai Jagat 2020. “Jagat,” in Hindi, means “all people in the world”....

Global killings of land and environmental defenders in 2016

Global Witness, the author of the report, Defenders of the Earth, showcases their research on the 200 land and environmental defenders’ deaths in 2016. The increasing suppression of environmental and land rights activism in many countries is spreading, and their right...

Torture and illegal detention of law student reaffirms need for anti-torture law in India

On 9 June 2017, a law student, Stalin, was detained in India for 18 hours under suspicion of being part of a smuggling network. According to the Asian Human Rights Commission...