URBANIZATION
History of Cities – Heritage
Urban Housing
Rural Housing
LEGAL ASPECTS
Right to Housing
Forced Eviction
USEFUL TOOLS:
- Housing and Land Rights Violation Database in each country (Housing and Land Network – HIC): http://hlrn.org/welcome_violation.php#.VD-IVCi7_vQ
- Zero Evictions Campaign (International Alliance of Inhabitants): http://www.habitants.org/zero_evictions_campaign
Land Law
Land Grabbing
USEFUL TOOLS
- Data sets on agricultural land grabbing in the world (GRAIN): https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/4429-new-data-sets-on-land-grabbing
- The Online Public Database on Land Deals – Global Observatory (Land Matrix): http://landmatrix.org/en/
Vulnerable Groups
- Old People
- Young People
- Women
Some Interesting Practices
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS
Housing Market
Quality of Housing
Informal Housing / Slum / Homeless
ROLE OF PUBLIC AUTHORITIES
Social Housing
ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
Laos aims to break out of the category of least developed countries (LDCs) by 2020. It promotes environmental protection, with the aim of reaching the original 70% of the (Now less than 50%) by 2020, and confirms the choice of an open and integrated economy in the regional economy and in the world (gradual tariff cuts in Asean, Aimed at accessing the WTO in 2013, etc.). The government negotiates its natural resources by granting concessions on mines, land, water resources and resolutely wants to become the “Southeast Asian battery”. However, it risks jeopardizing fisheries resources and the food security of its populations. (Source: GRET LAOS)
Bibliography & Sitography
SEEN BY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Major Problems
Major Claims or Demands
Some Civil Society Actors
- GRET LAOS = non-profit association that works in an international network and brings together the professionals of solidarity development. In Laos, they carry out projects on the development of bamboo sectors – micro-health insurance – micro-finance – rural development and warning of natural disasters. Representation in Laos : Website – Contact.
