TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 1 Ongoing violations of the right to adequate housing................................................................. 2 Repeated forced evictions ..................................................................................................... 4 Denial of an effective remedy ............................................................................................... 5 Operation Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle – an inadequate and ineffective remedy............................... 7 Operation Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle – failures and lies ............................................................. 9 The figures: too little, too late ............................................................................................. 10 Housing........................................................................................................................... 11 Allocation of residential land plots (stands) for house building ..................................... 12 Failure to prioritise the victims of mass forced evictions ................................................... 13 Unaffordable ....................................................................................................................... 17 The right to adequate water and sanitation.......................................................................... 20 Security of tenure ................................................................................................................ 21 Government failure to ensure reparations to Operation Murambatsvina victims and the right to adequate housing .................................................................................................... 22 Vendors – the right to gain a living through work .................................................................. 24 The criminalisation of livelihoods ...................................................................................... 25 Recommendations ................................................................................................................... 27 Recommendations to the government of Zimbabwe........................................................... 28 Recommendations to donors ............................................................................................... 30 Recommendations to the United Nations............................................................................ 30 AI Index: AFR 46/005/2006 Amnesty International 8 September 2006

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