EVICTION TRENDS WORLDWIDE - AND THE ROLE OF LOCAL-AUTHORITIES IN IMPLEMENTING THE RIGHT TO HOUSING

Eviction trends worldwide - and the role of local authorities in implementing the right to housing is based on the findings of a programme to monitor forced evictions undertaken by the Habitat International Coalition. It outlines how the right to housing is increasingly explicit in international law - and in some countries' constitutions - and how few governments act on it. It reviews the 40 cases of eviction - one of the most blatant and critical violations of the right to housing - which the Coalition documented between 1987 and 1993, and discusses the similarities and differences of these cases and the actors involved.