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Osaka: Homeless Displaced for World Cup |
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| Type of violation |
Forced eviction |
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| Date | 01 May 2002 | ||||||||||
| Region | A [ Asia ] | ||||||||||
| Country | Japan | ||||||||||
| Location | Osaka | ||||||||||
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| Brief narrative |
Almost three hundred homeless persons were removed from an area near Nagai Stadium during the 2002 World Cup. Few of them were provided with shelter at an alternative site. See "Mega-Events and Housing Rights" released by COHRE(Centre for Housing Rights and Evictions) 5 August 2008 found at http://www.cohre.org/mega-events-chinese | ||||||||||
| Costs | € 0 | ||||||||||
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