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'One World, Whose Dream? Housing Rights Violations and the Beijing Olympic Games'
Article | Beijing 2008 | Displacement | Housing | Human Rights
The Beijing Olympics has displaced 1.5 million people since 2000, according to the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE). A new COHRE report, One World, Whose Dream? Housing Rights Violations and the Beijing Olympic Games, has found that the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision to award the Games to Beijing has been a catalyst in increasing forced evictions and displacements in Beijing.
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Mon, 21/07/2008 - 17:26.
