HIC-HLRN has prepared this report on the occasion of the 13th World Urban Forum (WUF13), 17–22 September 2026. It summarizes the main housing and land rights issues since 2000 in Azerbaijan, the WUF13 host country. This review of events and developments explores the discrepancies between administrative practice and relevant law, including Azerbaijan’s Constitution, legislation and Human Rights Treaty obligations with a focus on the human right to adequate housing. The period is marked by urban infrastructure projects characterized by aggressive forced evictions and home demolitions without proper reparations and the population transfer and dispossession of over 100,000 indigenous Armenians from Nagorno-Karabagh. This report also annexes the violations documented in the Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) Violation Database (VDB) during the review period.

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