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Kamaiya ’Emancipation’ |
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Forced eviction Demolition/destruction Dispossession/confiscation |
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| Date | 17 April 2000 | ||||||||||
| Region | A [ Asia ] | ||||||||||
| Country | Nepal | ||||||||||
| Location | Dang, Banke, Bardiya, Kailali, and Kanchanpur districts https://english.nepalnews.com/s/feature/nepals-landless-people-and-the-crisis-that-evictions-cant-solve/ | ||||||||||
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| - Number of homes | 200 | ||||||||||
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| Brief narrative |
Kamaiya Emancipation and Eviction (July 2000)
On July 17, 2000, the Government of Nepal formally abolished the Kamaiya system of bonded labor, freeing over 30,000 families. However, this liberation was immediately followed by a wave of forced evictions, as former landlords removed these families from the land where they had lived and worked for generations. Despite government promises of rehabilitation, as of 2024, thousands of these families remain landless or reside on unproductive, flood-prone riverbanks.1
1. Nepal’s landless people and the crisis that evictions can’t solve - Nepal News, accessed May 13, 2026, https://english.nepalnews.com/s/feature/nepals-landless-people-and-the-crisis-that-evictions-cant-solve/ | ||||||||||
| Costs | € 0 | ||||||||||
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