3.11 Compensation
Sources
Government shall ensure that measures are in place to guarantee
those affected have access to compensation for real and personal
property damaged as a result of evictions. Moreover, compensation
should be provided for all other economically assessable damage,
including loss of life, physical or mental harm, lost opportunities in
terms of employment, education or social benefits, loss of earnings or
earning potential, and the costs associated with necessary professional
expenses incurred during the course of resettlement, such as legal,
medical or psycho-social.
Cash compensation should under no circumstances
compensation in the form of land or real property.
replace
Compensation must also be provided for losses to real property,
including the original dwelling structure and land lost, irrespective of
whether any formal title was held over either.
18 Human Rights in the Rubble
ICESCR, art.
11(1)
GC VII, para. 13
Basic
Principles,
paras. 60-63.