Nepal’s Squatter Evictions Raise Due Process Concerns
Rights groups say the clearances have displaced about 25,000 people as the Supreme Court reviews petitions against the removals.
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Malay Mail
Nepal PM backs squatter settlement demolitions in Kathmandu, rights groups decry displacement
KATHMANDU, May 4 — Nepal’s newly elected Prime Minister Balendra Shah defended today his push to clear informal settlements from stiff criticism by rights groups, in rare public comments since assuming office.Authorities last month began demolishing informal settlements home to thousands of people on government land in the capital Kathmandu.Squatters have been living for decades on the banks of the Bagmati river and its tributaries which crisscr…
Kathmandu. 1,816 squatter families in the Kathmandu Valley have contacted the government. After the government demolished illegal structures on the banks of the Bagmati and its tributaries in the Kathmandu Valley, only 1,816 families have contacted the government as of Sunday. A total of 7,789 citizens from 1,816 families have contacted the government so far, claiming to be squatters, in the process of vacating risky public and government land o…
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