Appendix 2: Links to Important DocumentsThe following important documents on the laws and policies relevant to forced evictions can be found online: The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: The U.N. Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights’ “General Comment 4: The Right to Adequate Housing”: The U.N. Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights’ General Comment’s “General Comment 7: The Right to Adequate Housing: Forced Evictions”: Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing’s “Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-Based Evictions and Displacement,” E/CN.4/2006/41, March 14, 2006: The Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights’ “Fact Sheet No.25, Forced Evictions and Human Rights”: The Japan Bank for International Cooperation’s “Environmental and Social Guidelines”: The World Bank’s “Revised Policy on Involuntary Resettlement (OP/BP 4.12)”: |