A right to stay for Karail inhabitants
HFB supports a petition, launched via Avaaz, aiming to ensure a future for Karail Basti and its more than 100,000 inhabitants in Dhaka, Bangladesh. On April 4 2012, parts of the settlement were destroyed by two bulldozers: around 4,000 persons lost their homes or their shops, i.e. the basis for their and their families' survival. Not only is the deployment of bulldozers considered to violate human rights and thus forbidden by international laws. Also, the eviction drive took place without proper information to the local inhabitants. Above all, the concerned families were not offered any alternative shelter. HFB has been conducting research in and on Karail Basti since long and requests, together with the citizens of Dhaka, to stop such eviction drives and to start a dialogue towards finding humane and just solutions for a city for all. Sign the petition...
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