Over 25,000 landless families in Aceh still waiting for new land and homes, Oxfam warns
Over 25,000 poor and landless families in Aceh, Indonesia are missing out on the rebuilding programme and have yet to be re-housed nearly two years after the tsunami washed away their homes and destroyed their land, international aid agency Oxfam warned today.
Aceh is the largest reconstruction project in the developing world and a lot of work has been done already, thanks to the generous international response and prompt action by the Indonesian government. So far over a third of the 128,000 houses needed have been built.
But land rights are a major obstacle in re-housing the landless. Many landless people are still languishing in barracks: temporary buildings where many families live in cramped, often unhygienic conditions.
Today Oxfam issued a new report, "The Tsunami Two Years On: Land Rights in Aceh," and urged the Indonesian government to find a fair and just way of re-housing the landless. (MORE)
http://www.oxfam.org/en/news/pressreleases2006/pr061207_tsunami
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Over 25,000 poor and landless families in Aceh, Indonesia are missing out on the rebuilding programme and have yet to be re-housed nearly two years after the tsunami washed away their homes and destroyed their land, international aid agency Oxfam warned today.
Aceh is the largest reconstruction project in the developing world and a lot of work has been done already, thanks to the generous international response and prompt action by the Indonesian government. So far over a third of the 128,000 houses needed have been built.
But land rights are a major obstacle in re-housing the landless. Many landless people are still languishing in barracks: temporary buildings where many families live in cramped, often unhygienic conditions.
Today Oxfam issued a new report, "The Tsunami Two Years On: Land Rights in Aceh," and urged the Indonesian government to find a fair and just way of re-housing the landless. (MORE)
http://www.oxfam.org/en/news/pressreleases2006/pr061207_tsunami
Please also see:
Philippines: UN rushes in relief supplies for flood victims after Typhoon Durian
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20848&Cr=philippines&Cr1=
Philippines Flood - November 2004
http://earth.esa.int/ew/floods/philippines_nov04
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6217514.stm
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change http://unfccc.int
WFP Food Aid Heads for Tsunami Victims in West Java
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2493&blz=1
UNITED NATIONS FLASH APPEAL LAUNCHED IN JAKARTA
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2069&blz=1