A/HRC/4/37 page 16 62. Since the establishment of the mandate, the Special Representative has sent 24 cases concerning defenders working on housing rights. 63. The Special Representative has received information from all regions including Cambodia, China, India, the Philippines and South Korea; Angola, Sudan and Zimbabwe; Argentina, Ecuador and Guatemala; Israel; Turkey and Croatia. 64. Defenders working on the right to adequate housing also advocate for non-discrimination against minorities in securing housing. They campaign against illegal or forced evictions in relation to projects such as dam building, the construction of highways and railway lines, gas pipelines and different kinds of “urban development” projects, including “city beautification” or the preparations for the Olympic Games. They also work against collective punishment by forced evictions and the rights of internally displaced persons. After her visit to Thailand in 2003, the Special Representative expressed concern over violence and other acts allegedly committed against defenders protesting against a gas pipeline project and a dam (E/CN.4/2004/94/Add.1). In June 2006, the Special Representative issued a joint statement with the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living and on the right to non-discrimination in this context expressing concern regarding the action of the Government of Cambodia to prevent access to human rights defenders to monitor the forced eviction of over a thousand Bassac residents in Phnom Penh. 65. The Special Representative has acted on at least 12 cases where defenders have been killed because of their work on housing rights. 66. In her mission report on her visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Special Representative refers to individual defenders and groups who campaign against house demolitions (see E/CN.4/2006/95/Add.3, para. 13). The Special Representative reiterated her concerns regarding the killing of Rachel Corrie who was run over by an Israeli army bulldozer in Rafah refugee camp while attempting to stop the levelling of houses on 16 March 2003. The situation of human rights defenders engaged with the right to housing is also reflected in her mission report to Angola (E/CN.4/2005/101/Add.2). 5. The right to food and water 67. The right to food is also a component of article 11 of ICESCR.1 Similarly, the right to water is clearly included in this category, since it is “one of the most fundamental conditions for 1 According to paragraph 2 of article 11, the States parties, recognizing the “fundamental right to everyone to be free from hunger”, “shall take, individually and through international cooperation, the measures, including specific programmes, which are needed: (a) to improve methods of production, conservation and distribution of food […] and (b) taking into account the problems of both food-importing and food-exporting countries, to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need”.