Search resources, channels and events
This volume debates and informs on themes such as housing, participation, and vulnerability in relation to large-scale post-disaster reconstruction. It is a contribution to ongoing debate in terms...
Bamboo as a green building material.
Project of the Handmade School in Bangladesh.
This publication of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement provides the first comprehensive analysis of the role of the Colombian Constitutional Court in addressing the situation of...
The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, the Universidad de los Andes, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Acción Social jointly convened a seminar on the role of...
Estos estudios han aportado valiosos conocimientos para la adecuada protección del patrimonio arquitectónico y cultural construido conestos materiales ancestrales, característicos en el territorio...
The 'House of Rights' serves as a centre where internally displaced (IDP's) can come to reclaim their rights - be they human rights, civil rights or such basic rights as health,...
This report uses the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 as the basis for describing "enabling" strategies and processes in the field of shelter provision and improvement. A...
Conflicts force people to leave their homes. Indeed, one of the measures of the severity of a conflict – in addition to casualties and duration – is the extent to which people have been displaced...
SYRIA: Work done by the shelter sector in Syria and its members to launch, in partnership with the national and local authorities, a multi-sector prioritization exercise for the rehabilitation of...
The speaker presented an overview of the work of COHRE, including the work recently done in Sri Lanka and Colombia. 'The Pinheiro Principles' (COHRE, 2003) on property restitution and land rights...