The issue of forced evictions1 has in recent years reached the international human rights agenda because of the harmful impact it has on civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of large numbers of people, both individual and communities.2. Given the complex nature of the humanitarian emergency situation and the exponential growth of urban settlements in the country, the Afghanistan Protection Cluster (APC) specifically through the Housing, Land and Property Task Force (HLP TF), considers forced evictions of Afghans-whether IDPs, refugee returnees or more generally civilians affected by the conflict-who are illegally settled on State-or privately owned land, to be an urgent humanitarian issue in need of redress.