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HLRN Violations Database
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Welcome! |
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You have entered the HLRN Violations Database (VDB), a new
interactive and participatory website feature for
documenting and reviewing the world’s most-common housing
and land rights violations. The VDB offers a simplified
method for managing data about violations arising from
actual cases of (1) forced eviction, (2) demolition, (3)
confiscation and (4) privatization of public goods and
services. HLRN’s coordination office has designed and
initiated the VDB especially for HIC-HLRN members, but the
general public is invited to participate and benefit as
well. |
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Broadly, the VDB is a prototype service aimed at providing a
unique monitoring tool that would allow respondents to
record simply various violations to housing and land rights
as they occur. This, in turn, will supply analysts,
researchers, and human rights defenders with the necessary
raw material on which to conduct cross-analyses, build
cases, create reports and advocate the HRAH. The data also
will integrate with the regular services and activities of
HIC-HLRN advocacy, Urgent Actions, social production of
habitat, training and UN cooperation. |
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What data to record |
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The VDB will track violations and corresponding losses
arising from (1) forced evictions, (2)
demolitions/destructions, (3) dispossession/confiscation,
and (4) Privatization of public goods and services. The
losses are presented in the following subcategories: |
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- Illustrate the “violations approach” to the human
right to housing;
- Offer a simplified and uniform methodology for
documenting cases;
- Provide a chance to promote cases, proposed solutions
and strategies;
- Give HIC-HLRN members a means to relate their
experiences to each other;
- Allow other members to see at a glance what is
happening on other HIC-HLRN regions;
- Produce a tool and opportunity for HLRN regional
coordinators to relate to their constituents;
- Allow members to use this database to create their own
databases for locally specific purposes;
- Facilitate searches from primary data to produce
reports by time, location and/or type of violation;
- Devise a way for members to find partners on the basis
of type of case, experience and strategy; and
- With experience at this simplified documentation
exercise, users then can graduate to more-advanced methods
in the HLRN Toolkit.
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