India

HLRN Releases a Handbook on “How to Respond to Forced Evictions”

Published in Thursday April 17th, 2014 In Social movement news

At an event organised in New Delhi on 16 April 2014, Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) launched its new publication titled “How to Respond to Forced Evictions: A Handbook for India”.

Rapporteur sends nine communications during the 2nd semester of 2013

Published in Friday March 14th, 2014 In Dialogue with countries

During the second semester of 2013, Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik sent nine communications and received seven country responses. Find out more!

Land, conflict and injustice in India

Published in Monday February 3rd, 2014 In Social movement news

There are many fires raging in India. The agrarian crisis is one of the most shocking and destructive, and it sits at the heart of a range of interconnected calamities.

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A Slum Spends Sleepless Nights in Fear of Eviction

Published in Wednesday November 6th, 2013 In In the media

On the morning of March 24, 2011, several hundred police officers, accompanied by giant bulldozers, surrounded the slum of Gayatri Colony in west Delhi as part of an eviction drive by the Delhi Development Authority, which claims ownership of the colony’s land.

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UN experts raise human rights concerns over POSCO’s plans for $12 billion steel plant in India

Published in Wednesday October 2nd, 2013 In In the media

A U.N. panel of experts urged South Korean steel giant POSCO on Tuesday to suspend plans for a $12 billion steel plant over concerns the project threatened the rights and livelihoods of tens of thousands in eastern India. The call follows a June report by rights groups saying that illegal land seizures threatened to displace 22,000 people and deprive thousands more of their means of existence in the state of Orissa.

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India: Urgent call to halt Odisha mega-steel project amid serious human rights concerns

Published in Tuesday October 1st, 2013 In News on the Rapporteurs

Construction of a mega-steel plant in Odisha in Eastern India should be halted immediately, United Nations independent human rights experts have urged, citing serious human rights concerns.

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The Price of Steel: Human Rights and Forced Evictions in the POSCO-India Project

Published in Tuesday July 30th, 2013

The Price of Steel: Human Rights and Forced Evictions in the POSCO-India Project documents the human rights abuses being carried out to facilitate the establishment of the POSCO-India project, and the associated illegal seizures of land which threaten to forcibly displace as many as 22,000 people in India’s eastern state of Odisha.

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Reaffirming Justiciability: Judgements on the Human Right to Adequate Housing from the High Court of Delhi

Published in Saturday July 6th, 2013

In the year 2010, the High Court of Delhi passed two significant judgements — Sudama Singh and Others vs. Government of Delhi and Anr., and PK Koul vs. Estate Officer and Anr. and Ors. — upholding the human right to adequate housing, and the right to resettlement and rehabilitation. Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) considers both these judgements to be very important precedents in Indian case law. They hold great relevance in protecting the human right to adequate housing in India as well as internationally. The judgements, therefore, need to be widely disseminated, read, understood, cited and implemented.

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The Price of Steel: Human Rights and Forced Evictions in the POSCO-India Project

Published in Tuesday July 2nd, 2013

Worth approximately US$12 billion, the POSCO-India project represents the largest single foreign direct investment in India to date, and will require more than 12,000 acres of land, including approximately 4,000 acres for an integrated steel plant and captive port in an area that is home to forest-dwelling communities and a vibrant and sustainable local economy centered around betel leaf cultivation. For the past eight years, affected communities—including betel leaf farmers, fisherfolk, and Dalits—have effectively stalled the project and resisted their forcible evictions from lands they have cultivated for generations.

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Rights Groups Urge Suspension of the POSCO-India Project, Prevention of Forced Evictions

Published in Monday July 1st, 2013 In Social movement news

The Government of India must end human rights abuses tied to its project with South Korean steel giant POSCO, and must immediately cease illegal seizures of land which threaten to forcibly displace as many as 22,000 people in India’s eastern state of Odisha, said rights groups in a new report.

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