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, 31 Oct 11

Opening Addresses
Dr Joan Clos, UN-HABITAT Executive Director address to EGM on Forced Evictions (20th September 2011)
Address to EGM on Forced Evictions UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Ms Raquel Rolnik (20th September 2011)
Address by UN-HABITAT's Director of Global Division, Axumite Gebre-Egziabher
Address by UN-HABITAT's Head of Shelter Branch, Mohamed El-Sioufi
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Speaker: Urban Johnsson, Independent expert
Keynote address: The human rights based approach
Speaker: Bahram Ghazi, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations Housing Rights Programme/OHCHR
Speaker: Leticia Osorio, the Ford Foundation Advisory Group on Forced Evictions
Speaker: Leilani Farha, Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
Forced Evictions: Global Crisis, Global Solutions
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Speaker: Jean du Plessis, UN-HABITAT
Keynote address: Review of existing eviction impact assessment methodologies
Speaker: Leticia Osorio, the Ford Foundation
Global Eviction Monitoring
Speaker: Ryan Schlief, WITNESS
Speaker:Maartje Van Eerd, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies
Guidelines and Practices on Evictions, Acquisition, Expropriation and Compensation
Thursday, 22 September 2011
Speaker: Esther Kodhek, Center on Housing Rights and Evictions
Keynote address: Housing rights in an international perspective (role and responsibilities of relevant actors)
Miloon Kothari, Former Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing.
  Roundtable
Housing Rights Networks and UN-HABITAT
  • Sheela Patel, Director, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC)
  • Joanna Levitt, Executive Director, International Accountability Project
  • Esther Kodhek, Africa Director, Center on Housing Rights and Evictions
  • Fides Bagasao, Regional Organizer for Southeast Asia, Huairou Commission
  • Arif Hasan, Chairperson, Urban Resource Centre, Asian Coalition for Housing Rights
  • Catherine Peyge, Mayor of Bobigny
Friday, 23 September 2011
Speaker: Claudio Acioly Jr., UN-HABITAT Housing Policy Section
Keynote address: Potential role and possible ways forward for UN-HABITAT on forced evictions
Closing Addresses
Address by Mr Paul Taylor, Chief of UN-HABITAT's Executive Office

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