Security of tenure is an important issue in the urban environment and rural environment as well. Now a day it has become a major agenda of discussion in the developing world. By 2025, 1 billion people will live in the urban area. Under international human rights law, secure tenure is one of the seven components of the human right to adequate housing, which is again linked to the right to land. The other six components of human right are; availability of services, affordability, habitability, accessibility, location and, cultural adequacy. (UNHABITAT, 2006).

Security of tenure is also an important component of the Habitat Agenda commitment to adequate housing. Security of tenure is directly linked to urban citizenship. Because, people from rural areas en masse migrating to urban areas for their livelihood and subsistence and living in poor environmental condition. Though people from all strata are coming to the urban environment, security of tenure mostly related to the poorer section of the society. Those, who are coming to the city 50 percent of them, are settling themselves in to the urban slums and squatters of the urban environment. Already these slums degraded due to lack of urban basic services. The poor people getting badly affected in a various ways. Some well off family coming to the city, but not getting affected as poor people. Their reasons for coming to the city are standard education facilities, health services and better life style in the urban environment. But slums are not recognized by the state and facing fear of eviction. The paper tries to analyze the problem from secondary data sources with reference to Dhaka’s slum and squatter settlements problem