Executive Summary
1. Introduction
2. Objectives of the Fact-Finding Mission
3. The Kobe Earthquake in Brief
4. Natural Disasters and Housing Rights
5. Housing Conditions in Kobe Before the Earthquake
6. Current Housing and Living Conditions
No Place to go -
Problems with Security of Tenure -
Conditions in Officially Unrecognized Sites -
Conditions in Waiting and Evacuation Centres -
Conditions and Location of Temporary Housing -
Specific Inadequacies -
Conditions for Women in Housing -
Women, Violence and Housing
7. Human Rights and the Kobe Earthquake : Main Findings
Prima Facie Violations of Housing Rights
1 Lack of Citizen Participation in the Housing Process
2 Security of Tenure
3 The Right to Life
4 House Demolitions
5 Habitability, Living Conditions and the Absence of Adequacy
6 Quality of Construction
7 Durability of Housing
8 Location of Housing
9 Women, Housing and Violence
10 Discrimination and Disparate impacts
11 Privacy
12 Welfare Issues
Technical Findings
8. Recommendations
1 Kobe City Government
2 Hyogo Prefectural Government
3 Government of Japan
4 Professional Associations
5 Non-Governmental Organizations
6 Community-Based Organizations
7 Civil Society
9. Annexes
Annex 1: Members of the FFM
Annex 2: Housing Rights and International Law
Housing Rights Violation
Annex 3: The Covenant Within Japanese Jurisprudence
Annex 4: Relevant Provisions of the Constitution of Japan
Annex 5: Documents Reviewed
Annex 6: International Legal Sources of Housing Rights
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Habitat International Coalition
copyright : Habitat International Coalition, 17 January 1996
(Report compiled by Scott Leckie)
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