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This guide summarizes international human rights standards applicable to involuntary displacement caused by public and private infrastructure and urbanization projects.
This Handbook provides a summary and the actual text of the United Nations (UN) Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, acknowledged by the UN Human Rights Council in December 2007.
The impacts of large-scale agricultural investments on rural communities’ land ownership, food security, productivity, income, and access to education and health differ within and between communities depending on business and government influence.
Despite an inflow of investment in rural communities, there are concerns about negative impacts on local people’s livelihoods, access to farming land, productivity, income levels, food security and access to social services.
Displacement induced by large scale investments and subsequent resettlement affects community access to land, land tenure patterns, and tenure security.
Government intervention and local level coordination of large-scale investment decisions are important components required for positive impacts on food security, nutrition and livelihoods of host communities.
Spatiotemporal variation in ground-surface displacement caused by ground freeze–thaw and thermokarst is critical information to understand changes in the permafrost ecosystem.
Sri Lanka has recently emerged from nearly three decades of protracted conflict, which came to an end five years ago in 2009.
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