A United Nations independent expert today stressed that resettlement and land reform are two of the main challenges for the consolidations of peace and stability in Rwanda, and called on the Government to ensure that its policies on these issues take into account basic human rights.
"I call on the Government to make sure that implementation of the land consolidation policy is conducted on the basis of the human rights values of consultation and participation," said the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, at the end of her first mission to the country. "Involvement in land consolidation projects must be voluntary and in no way based on coercion."
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