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Here you find publications, articles, legislation and other kinds of documents related to the right to adequate housing.

Human Rights Report Card Gives U.S. Poor Grades on Housing

Published in Wednesday December 11th, 2013

The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty released its 2013 Human Right to Housing Report Card today, marked globally as human rights day, reviewing U.S. compliance with the human right to housing in the context of American homelessness over the past year. The report card found that while there were areas of improvement, much more needs to be done.

African Commission Affirms Women’s Right to Land and Other Productive Resources

Published in Thursday November 28th, 2013

In November 2013, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights adopted a groundbreaking resolution on women’s right to land and other productive resources. With this resolution, the African Commission urged States “to fully comply with their obligations and commitments to ensure, protect and promote women’s right to land and property” and encouraged them “to repeal discriminatory laws and adopt legislative measures to sanction customary practices that limit or have a negative impact on women’s access to, use of and control over land and other productive resources.”

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Realizing women’s rights to land and other productive resources

Published in Thursday November 21st, 2013

The purpose of this publication is to provide detailed guidance to support the adoption and effective implementation of laws, policies and programmes to respect, protect and fulfil women’s rights to land and other productive resources. It presents an overview of international and regional legal and policy instruments recognizing women’s rights to land and other productive resources, and discusses ways of advancing a human rights-based approach to women’s rights to land and other productive resources.

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CEDAW: General recommendation No. 30 on women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations

Published in Monday November 4th, 2013

The primary aim and purpose of the general recommendation is to provide authoritative guidance to States parties on legislative, policy and other appropriate measures to ensure full compliance with their obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women to protect, respect and fulfil women’s human rights. It also builds upon principles articulated in previously adopted general recommendations.

UN women’s rights committee adopts landmark document on women and conflict

Published in Wednesday October 23rd, 2013

States that have ratified the UN Women’s Rights Convention are obliged to uphold women’s rights before, during and after conflict when they are directly involved in fighting.

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Report: Housing Protections Fall Short for Domestic Violence Survivors

Published in Monday March 25th, 2013

One week after President Obama signed the Violence Against Women Act, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty has released a new report showing that state action is still urgently needed to prevent homelessness for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. In some areas of the country, one in four homeless adults report domestic violence as a cause of their homelessness.There’s No Place Like Home provides a comprehensive examination of the canon of state laws designed to address housing instability for survivors.

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Assessing the effectiveness of World Bank investments – The Gender Dimension

Published in Thursday March 14th, 2013

Today it is widely acknowledged that increasing the gender sensitivity of development aid increases its effectiveness. The report “Assessing the effectiveness of World Bank investments – The Gender Dimension” evaluates the extent to which the World Bank integrates gender concerns into its policies and investments, pointing out structural, financial and policy gaps that risk negatively impacting women in countries with Bank investments.

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Gender dimensions of the right to adequate housing from an international perspective

Published in Monday May 28th, 2012

May 28, 2012 ESR Review: Economic and Social Rights in South Africa recently published an article on Gender dimensions of the right to adequate housing from an international perspective by Mayra Gomez and Bret Thiele, Co-Executive Directors of the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.  The article examines how women’s housing and land rights […]

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Bangladesh’s statement on the report “Women and Adequate Housing”

Published in Thursday March 15th, 2012

On March 6th, 2012, the UN special rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, presented at the 19th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, the reports concerning her 2011 missions to Argentina and Algeria, as well as her thematic report on women and their right to adequate housing. After this […]

Palestine’s statement on the report “Women and Adequate Housing”

Published in Wednesday March 14th, 2012

On March 6th, 2012, the UN special rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, presented at the 19th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, the reports concerning her 2011 missions to Argentina and Algeria, as well as her thematic report on women and their right to adequate housing. After this […]