Fight forced evictions from only homes!
Campaign Kazakhstan has received an appeal from housing campaigners for international support. At present several dozen people are refusing to take food in protest at the Nazarbayev government refusing to stop banks evicting them from their only homes.
United Nations Rapporteur, Raquel Rolnik, who was recently in Britain pointing out the injustices of the Con-Dem government’s ‘bedroom tax’, was in Kazakhstan in 2010. Her report to the Kazakhstan government urged the implementation of the international law which speaks of what should be an inviolable right to shelter.
Now human rights activists from the Central Asian Network “For Social Inclusion” have sent to bodies of the United Nations on this issue. They have set up an online petition requesting an immediate response to an indefinite hunger strike by citizens who are victims of violations of the right to adequate housing in the Republic of Kazakhstan. It urges UN member states to take effective measures to ensure the proper application of legal practices and law enforcement.
We ask readers to support and sign the petition, which states:
Adequate alternative housing is not being provided under the law of the Republic of Kazakhstan for those borrowers (of money for housing) who are being subjected to forced evictions. Over a long period of time, commercial banks, with the active assistance of the judiciary and public officials, has been depriving citizens of their only homes, which is leading to poor health and threatens the lives of all family members (including children, the elderly , the ill and disabled), to a rise in homelessness and social exclusion . In this way, the activities of banks involved in mortgage lending with the full connivance of the state, have purposefully aimed at severely limiting/infringing the right of all citizens to a decent standard of living , the most important component of which is the right to adequate housing. (Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic , Social and Cultural Rights) .
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