To:

Governor M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Governor of Bangkok
Police General Aswin Khawnmuang, Deputy Governor of Bangkok
173 Dinso Road, Phra Nakhon
Bangkok, Thailand 10200.

Fax: +66 2-621 0878

CC:

General Prawit Wongsuwan
Deputy Prime Minister and Chairs of the Krung Rattanakosin and Old
Towns Conservation and Development Committee

Bovornvej Rungruji, Chairs of the Krung Rattanakosin Sub-committee

Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning
60/1 Soi Pibunwattana 7, Rama 6 Road
Samsennai, Phayathai District
Bangkok Thailand 10400

Tel: +66 2-265-6500
Fax: +66 2-265-6511

Ms. Leilhani Farha
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Palais Wilson
52 rue des Pâquis
CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland.
E-mail: srhousing@ohchr.org

Dr. Gwang-Jo Kim
Director,
UNESCO Bangkok
Mom Luang Pin Malakul Centenary Building
920 Sukhumvit Road
Prakanong, Klongtoei
Bangkok 10110
Thailand
E-mail: bangkok@unesco.org

Solidarity with Pom Mahakan community proposals and struggles for human rights and Zero Evictions!

Dear Governor Suhumbhand and Deputy Governor Aswin,

I am writing to you because I have received disturbing information from local organisations and the International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI) regarding plans for the imminent eviction of the Pom Mahakan community (approximately 300 people) by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) in order to carry out the “beautification” of the historic site as part of the implementation of the Rattanakosin Conservation and Development Plan.

I express my deep concern that such a precipitate and ill-advised move would violate the human rights of the residents, recognized by international laws and those of your country, and would destroy a resource of considerable value to the people of Bangkok and indeed of Thailand.

For those reasons, I stand in full solidarity with the proposals and struggles of  Pom Mahakan community and support their and the IAI’s request for Zero Evictions policies, finding solutions respectful of all human rights, as pointed out by the Recommendations made by the 50^th  Session of UN Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Committee (2015) and those of the 1^st  Session of the International Tribunal on Evictions for East Asia (2016).

We kindly request your immediate response as a matter of urgency so that your decisions may be presented with due emphasis at the international level, in particular in support of an intervention of  the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing and at the UN Conference Habitat III (Quito, 17 to 20 October 2016).

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• Mike Davies, SMART Harare - Zimbabwe
• Gerson Appenzeller, Sindicato dos Trabalhadores do Poder Judiciário Federal no Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil - Brazil
• luis Antonio Silverio Sanchez Restrepo, CORPORACION CORSESA - Colombia
• Marco Dallabella, - Italy
• rosanna peluso, - Italy
• Caragh du Toit, - United Kingdom
• Emilia Rosero, NINA Comunicaciones - Ecuador
• FENOT Philippe, - France
• egle piccinini, - Italy
• carlos sepulveda, - Spain
• Ana Arce Ibarra, Ciudadanos independientes - Mexico
• Pedro Martín, - Spain
• MARIA ISABEL MUÑOZ SEPULVEDA, JUNTA DE ACCIÓN COMUNAL LA CASCADA - Colombia
• josé a. chuza LEDESMA, Asociación Civil Hábitat y Vida (ACHyV), Argentina - Argentina
• FLESI BIRINDWA Etienne, Action pour le développement intégral et d'assistance humanitaire(ADIAH) - Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The
• luca fusi, - Italy
• Marcelo Guerin, centro cultural san francisco solano - Argentina
• Luis Ángel Saavedra, INREDH - Ecuador
• Concetta Ippolito, - Italy
• Consiglia Salvio, Comitati Acqua Pubblica di Napoli e della Campania - Italy
• Luis Castro , - Spain
• LUCE Roger, - France
• MARIA INÊS SUGAI, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Brazil
• Oscar Revilla, - Spain
• Jaume Roig, - Spain
• Xavier Gómez, Web StAP - Spain
• Jaime Erazo Espinosa, El Colegio de México, A.C. - Mexico
• Francisco Torres , Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario de Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico
• Rafael Matos Féliz, Sociedad Ecológica de Barahona - Dominican Republic
• patricia sanchez, Fundacion Vida urbana - Ecuador
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• Virginia Scocchera, - Argentina
• Bruno Miguel Mesquita Henriques, - Portugal
• LAYALLE Claude, ATTAC France - France
• Anna La Vista, Comitato lotta per la casa Roma - Italy
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• Emanuel Bonfante Demaria Junior, SINTAPPI-MG - Brazil
• Libion Bernadette, - Belgium
• MARIA ALICE BITTENCOURT, Rede Feminista de Salvador - Brazil
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• Romann dominique, - France
• Carlos Arturo Cadavid, Junta Acción Comunal Barrio San Benito - Colombia
• Mario Barrera, Junta Civica Paraje El Pinar (Fuente Clara-Robledo) - Colombia
• antonio carlos lima gomes, Universidade Federal do Maranhão - Brazil
• Cristina Reynals, Fe.De.Vi. - Argentina
• Carlo Gatti, - Italy
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