It legalises squatter settlements set up on private land before 2005 the eighth such measure in the past four decades.

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Most of the world's poor live in densely populated squatter settlements and lack many of the basics of human survival.

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Indo-Fijians have also been turfed out of squatter settlements around Suva.

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