gg. Ensure the right to resettlement, which includes the right to alternative
land of better or equal quality and housing that must satisfy the following
criteria for adequacy: accessibility, affordability, habitability, security of
tenure, cultural adequacy, suitability of location, and access to essential
services such as health and education. This includes the obligation to
ensure that resettled persons, groups and communities are not placed in
conflict with their host communities;
hh. Ensure that all resettlement measures, such as construction of homes,
provision of water, electricity, sanitation, schools, access roads and
allocation of land and sites, are consistent with internationally recognised
human rights principles, and completed before those who are to be
evicted are moved from their original areas of dwelling;
ii. Ensure that adequate and effective legal or other appropriate remedies
are available to any persons who are threatened with, undergo, remain
vulnerable to, or defend against forced evictions. These include a fair
hearing, access to legal counsel, legal aid, return, restitution, resettlement,
rehabilitation and compensation, and protection from eviction during the
period that their case is being examined before a national, regional or
international legal body;
jj. Ensure that all those evicted, irrespective of whether they hold title to the
property, should be entitled to adequate compensation including pecuniary
and non pecuniary damages, within a reasonable time. This may cover the
loss, salvage and transport of their properties affected, together with the
loss of any rents already paid.
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