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The HLP [Housing, Land and Property]choices the nation makes in the coming months will largely determine
whether this unbelievably beautiful land, and its proud and wonderful people, will
face the tumult, inequities and tragic HLP outcomes of so many other nations of
transition; or whether Myanmar can chart an entirely new HLP path, which ushers in
a truly new HLP dawn, whereby every one of the country’s 55 million citizens can –
as rapidly as possible – enjoy growing security of tenure, improving housing and
living conditions, ever greater access to clean water and regular supplies of electricity,
and ultimately all of the HLP rights promised to citizens everywhere under human
rights law and international best practice. Indeed, we need to dream of an HLP future
that unfolds into sustainable cities and towns, where historical neighbourhoods are
preserved, where HLP policy begins from a pro-poor perspective where justice
follows and where the nations farmer’s experience ever growing levels of HLP rights
protections enabling them to restore this land’s position as the world’s rice bowl.
Securing HLP rights for all and not just the few is the way to build a strong economy,
a stable society and a prosperous future. There is still every chance for the people of Myanmar to get it right and pursue a
wholly original, forward-looking approach to these issues. But time is passing quickly
and space for re-positioning legislative and policy initiatives on HLP issues is
becoming ever smaller. And the HLP challenges facing Myanmar are nothing short of
immense...
