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PRESS RELEASE – Right to adequate housing in Kazakhstan: challenges and ways forward

Published in Monday September 13th, 2010 In News

ASTANA (13 September 2010) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, warned about the high rate of forced evictions carried out in Kazakhstan to give way to large-scale development projects aimed at promoting economic and social development.

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PRESS RELEASE – Kazakhstan: UN expert to focus on the transition to market economy and its impact on housing rights

Published in Monday September 6th, 2010 In News

ASTANA (6 September 2010) – UN Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik is visiting Kazakhstan from 6 to 13 September 2010 to examine and report on the status of realisation of the right to adequate housing and other related human rights in the country. “I intend to focus on the challenges that the transition to a market economy pose to the realisation of the right to adequate housing,” said Ms. Rolnik.

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PRESS RELEASE – Problems from the past and challenges for the future in post conflict Croatia

Published in Tuesday July 13th, 2010 In News

ZAGREB (13 July 2010) – UN Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik urged on Tuesday* the Croatian authorities to keep moving forward on housing rights issues in the context of the transition and post-conflict recovery, and adopt clear policies to face present and future housing challenges.

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PRESS RELEASE – Croatia: UN expert to focus on housing rights in post conflict Croatia

Published in Thursday July 1st, 2010 In News

GENEVA (1 July 2010) – UN Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik will visit Croatia from 5 to 13 July 2010 to assess housing rights in post-conflict Croatia. This will be the first mission to the country by an expert designated by the UN Human Rights Council to monitor adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination.

PRESS RELEASE – Brazil: regression in Quilombo communities’ rights could breach international laws, says UN expert

Published in Wednesday May 26th, 2010 In News

GENEVA – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, said Wednesday that a decline in the rights afforded to communities founded by former slaves to control and benefit from their traditional lands may infringe Brazil’s international human rights obligations.

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PRESS RELEASE – Olympic Games/World Cup: the impact of mega-events on the right to adequate housing

Published in Monday March 8th, 2010 In News

GENEVA – “Olympic Games, World Cup, Winter Games and other events of this nature offer great opportunities to reorganize the urban space,” said the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, this Monday 8 March, during the presentation of her annual report* to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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PRESS RELEASE – Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing assesses impact of “Mega Events” on right to housing

Published in Thursday March 4th, 2010 In News

GENEVA – The UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, will share with the press her report on the impact of “mega-events” in the realization of the right to adequate housing on Monday 8 March at a press conference at the UN Headquarters in Geneva.

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PRESS RELEASE – Warning on dire situation of New Delhi’s homeless persons – UN expert on adequate housing

Published in Tuesday January 19th, 2010 In News

GENEVA (19 January 2010 ) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Ms. Raquel Rolnik, expressed her concern about the homeless persons that have died from cold recently in New Delhi and the risk to the lives of many others given the harsh weather and insufficient adequate shelters.

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PRESS RELEASE – Millions lack access to affordable and adequate housing in the U.S.

Published in Sunday November 8th, 2009 In News

WASHINGTON D.C. (8 November 2009) – The UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, warned at the end of her official visit to the United States of America that, “Millions of people in the U.S. are spending high percentages of their income to make their monthly rent and mortgage payment, face foreclosure or eviction, and live in overcrowded and substandard conditions.”

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PRESS RELEASE – UN housing expert makes first visit to the US

Published in Tuesday October 20th, 2009 In News

20 October 2009 – GENEVA — The Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Ms. Raquel Rolnik, will visit the United States of America from 22 October to 8 November 2009 at the invitation of the Government.

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