Booklets and teaching material

The Rapporteur develops material to promote the right to adequate housing among citizens and governments, seeking to translate the elements of this right and to show how they may be put in practice, with accessible language.

This material is made available in several languages and is distributed under the Creative Commons 3.0 license, so it may be published, altered and promoted freely if the original source is cited. In some publications, we even provide a space in which you may place your organisation’s logo in case you want to print it.

Here you also find similar teaching material developed by organisations and movements that work on the right to housing worldwide. Contact the Rapporteur if you want to send material to be promoted on our site.

Leaflet: They want to evict us. What now?


10 essential measures to be respected in case of development based evictions.

Guide: How to deal with projects that involve forced evictions and displacement?


This Guide, prepared by the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing summarizes international standards applicable to involuntary displacement caused by public and private infrastructure and urbanization.

Guide to Legal Observing of Forced Evictions

This Guide was compiled by Human Rights Clinic students involved in the Dale Farm project inorder to give guidance to legal observers in the UK and around the world regarding best practices for the conduct of legal observation. It provides information on relevant international human rightsnorms and standards, along with monitoring methodologies, to aid legal observers in ensuring thatforced evictions are conducted in accordance with human rights standards

Forced Evictions Assessment Questionnarie

The present document is intended to serve as a guidance tool for addressing situations of forced evictions.

Guide UN Habitat: Assessing the Impact of Eviction