National Eviction Guidelines

These Guidelines make provision for the responsibility of the Federal Government of the Republic of Somalia to refrain from, and protect against, arbitrary and forced eviction of occupiers of public and private properties, from homes, encampments and lands, to protect the human right to adequate housing and other related human rights. The Guidelines address the human rights implications of evictions in urban and rural areas, and further provides guidance on measures and procedures to be adopted and observed to ensure that forced evictions are not undertaken in contravention of existing international human rights standards, the Provisional Constitution of the Federal Republic of Somalia and other written laws. These Guidelines provide a practical tool for the development of policies, legislation, administrative procedures and preventive measures to ensure that forced evictions do not take place, and to provide effective remedies to those whose human rights are violated in consequence of failure on the part of the State to provide protection.