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“This map is a product of Habitat International Coalition`s Housing and Land Rights Campaign 2007 and HLRN`s Violation Database, charting documencharting documented cases during January 2004–September 2007. It covers (1) forced eviction, (2) demolition, (3) dispossession and (4) violations arising from privatization of social housing, land and services. The data collected in the VDB demonstrate how violations of citizens’ rights to adequate housing and land degrade living conditions and deepen poverty in all regions. This map also reflects enduring violations that result from conflict, occupation and war, as well as the denial of refugees’ and displaced disaster victims’ right of return. Uncharted areas do not imply a lack of violations, but indicate a shortage of verifiable data and the need for more and improved