Displacement
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[PDF] "Guidelines on Business, Land Acquisition, and Land Use: A Human Rights Approach"
- Author and date: Institute for Human Rights and Business, Nov 2011. Consultation draft open for comment until 29 Feb 2012
[PDF] "Preventing conflicts over land: Exploring the role of business & the value of human rights approaches"
- Author and date: Institute for Human Rights & Business, 2009
[DOC] "Forced Evictions" (training document)
- Author: Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
"Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-Based Evictions and Displacement"
- Author and date: Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, 2007
Intl. Finance Corporation:
- [PDF] Performance Standard 5: Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement
- [PDF] Guidance Note 5: Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement
- [PDF] Handbook on Preparing a Resettlement Action Plan
- "IAP [Intl. Accountability Project] submits comments to IFC on development-induced displacement", Jan 2010
Español
- [PDF] Principios básicos y directrices sobre los desalojos y el desplazamiento generados por el desarrollo
- Relator Especial sobre una vivienda adecuada
- [PDF] "Norma de Desempeño 5 - Adquisición de Tierras y Reasentamiento Involuntario"
- [PDF] "Nota de Orientación 5 - Adquisición de Tierras y Reasentamiento Involuntario"
- Corporación Financiera Internacional
Français
- [PDF] "Principes de base et directives concernant les expulsions et déplacements lies au développement"
- Rapporteur spécial sur le logement convenable
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