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Activities at HLRN include a strong publication component in the form of research and fact-finding reports, training material, brochures, reports to UN bodies, and human rights status updates. These are used as reference as well as practical tools for advocacy, awareness generation, human rights education, and other forms of solidarity-building.

Below is a list of HLRN publications. Click on a link to open and download the publication. Unfortunately, some of our documents are only available in hard copy.

To order any of the publications below, please send us an e-mail: info@hic-sarp.org

FACT-FINDING REPORTS
RESEARCH REPORTS
TRAINING AND MONITORING TOOLS
REPORTS TO UN BODIES
REPORTS ON WOMEN, HOUSING AND LAND
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
UN DOCUMENTS
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION

FACT-FINDING REPORTS
	Do People's Voices Matter? The Human Right to Participation in Post-tsunami Housing Reconstruction Report of a Fact-finding Mission to Tsunami-affected Areas of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry Fact-Finding Report No. 10 (2006) Battered Islands Report of a Fact-finding Mission to Tsunami-affected Areas of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Fact-Finding Report No. 9 (2006) Post-Tsunami Relief and Rehabilitation: A Violation of Human Rights Report of a Fact-finding Mission to Tsunami-affected Areas of Tamil Nadu, India and Sri Lanka Fact-Finding Report No. 8 (2005) The Impact of the 2002 Submergence on Housing and Land Rights in the Narmada Valley: Report of a Fact-finding Mission to Sardar Sarovar and Man Dam Projects Report on housing and land rights violations and inadequate rehabilitation Fact-Finding Report No. 7 (2003) Rebuilding from the Ruins: Listening to the Voices from Gujarat and Restoring People's Rights to Housing, Livelihood and Life Report on ethnic conflict in Gujarat, India Fact-Finding Report No. 6 (2002) For a copy of the report write to: info@hic-sarp.org Restructuring New Delhi's Urban Habitat: Building an Apartheid City? Report on the resettlement process of Delhi, India Fact-Finding Report No. 5 (2002) For a copy of the report write to:info@hic-sarp.org Resettlement on Land of Bhutanese Refugees Report on new threats to repatriation Fact-Finding Report No. 4 (2002) In Quest of Bhabrekar Nagar Report to enquire into demolitions in Mumbai, India Fact-Finding Report No. 2 (1997) For a copy of the report write to: info@hic-sarp.org

RESEARCH REPORTS
	Tsunami Response: A Human Rights Assessment (2006) Assessing Post-tsunami Housing Reconstruction in Andaman and Nicobar Islands A People's Perspective (2006) Confronting Discrimination: Nomadic Communities in Rajasthan and their Rights to Land and Adequate Housing Working Paper (2004) Dispossessed: Land and Housing Rights in Tibet Research Report (2002) For Copy of the report write to- info@hic-sarp.org Children and Right to Adequate Housing: A Guide to International Legal Resources Research Report and Training Manual (2002) For Copy of the report write to- info@hic-sarp.org Trade, Investment, Finance and Human Rights Essential Documents Research Report (2001) For Copy of the report write to- info@hic-sarp.org

TRAINING AND MONITORING TOOLS

Handbook on UN Guidelines and Basic Principles on Development-based Evictions and Displacement (2009)
- English
- Hindi
- Telugu

Methodology for Monitoring the Human Right to Adequate Housing:
The "Tool Kit"

Housing Rights Violation Loss Matrix
Click here

Violations Database
Click here

Elements of the Right to Adequate Housing
Click here

Urgent Action: HLRN Guide to Practical Solidarity for Defending the Human Right to Adequate Housing (En, Fr, Ar, SP)
Training Manual

International Human Rights Standards on Post-disaster Resettlement and Rehabilitation
Working document (2006)

Community Action Planning: Processes - Ideas - Experiences
Manual for human rights based slum upgradation (2002)
For Report contact Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA). Website:www.yuvaindia.org

REPORTS TO UN BODIES
	Acts of Commission, Acts of Omission: Housing and Land Rights and the Indian State - Report to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Update: March 2009. Acts of Commission, Acts of Omission: Housing and Land Rights and the Indian State Joint parallel report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2004) Child in Search of the State Alternative report to the India country report on the implementation of the Right to Housing as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1998)

REPORTS ON WOMEN, HOUSING AND LAND
	Our Land, Our Homes, Our Culture, Our Human Rights Proceedings of the Pacific Regional Consultation on Womens Rights to Adequate Housing and Land (2004) Interlinkages between Violence against Women and Women's Right to Adequate Housing Proceedings of the Asia Regional Consultation on The Interlinkages between Violence against Women and Womens Right to Adequate Housing (2003)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
	Voiceless No More Report of People's Tribunal on Housing Rights (2007) The Human Right to Adequate Housing & Land National Human Rights Commission Dossier

UN DOCUMENTS
	UN Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement Click here HIC Statement under Item 10: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 58th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights Click here Women’s Rights to Housing and Land Click here Women and the right to development (E/CN.4/SUB.2/RES/1999/15) Click here Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons (E/CN.4/SUB.2/RES/1998/26) Click here Women and the right to land, property and adequate housing (E/CN.4/SUB.2/RES/1998/15) Click here Women and the right to adequate housing and to land and property (E/CN.4/SUB.2/RES/1997/19) click here Fact Sheet No. 25, Forced Evictions and Human Rights click here Housing Rights Fact Sheet Click here

OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION
	Joint NGO Letter to Indian Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee: Narmada Valley under Sardar Sarovar Dam Submergence Click here