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   December 11, 2008

COHRE's 2008 Housing Rights Awards announced
Geneva, 9 December:

COHRE today announced the winners of its 2008 Housing Rights Awards. The International Olympic Committee and the Governments of Israel and Italy were censured with Housing Rights Violator Awards.

Ecuador's Constitutional Assembly was commended with a Housing Rights Protector Award, while Ken Fernandes, Pia Ndayiragije and the Coalition to Protect Public Housing were honoured with Housing Rights Defender Awards.

Read more at the link below.
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New COHRE report on access to water in the occupied Palestinian territory
9 December 2008:

COHRE today released a new report entitled "Policies of Denial: Lack of Access to Water in the West Bank".

The report documents violations of the right to water and sanitation resulting from Israeli policy and practice in the occupied West Bank, particularly in relation to lack of Palestinian access to water resources and water and sanitation services and facilities.

For more information click here or download the full report below.

Open letter on Boeung Kak Lake eviction, Phnom Penh, Cambodia


4 December 2008: COHRE, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Amnesty International and Human Rights Warch today wrote a joint, open letter to
Women's Land Link Africa website launched
7 October 2008:

The website of Women's Land Link Africa (WLLA), a joint project coordinated by COHRE's Women and Housing Rights Programme and the Huairou Commission, was launched today.

WLLA's new website can be found here:

www.wllaweb.org
Bulletin on Housing Rights and the Right to the City in Latin America


30 October 2008: COHRE today released the fourth edition of its new electronic Bulletin on housing rights and the right to the city in Latin America, prepared
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