Last month, presentation to the UN General Assembly of the report on housing reconstruction after natural disasters and the right to housing and the parallel event promoted by the Rapporteur created an intense debate and a few developments. Agencies and UN programs working with the reconstruction of countries have been discussing the recommendations made by Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik and looking for ways of implementing them.
Currently, the Rapporteur is in the final production phase of a booklet, a brochure and a report on women and the right to housing, which will be presented to the Human Rights Council in March 2012. In fact, the first mission of the Rapporteur in 2012 will be in Israel/OPT. New visits are already being scheduled and several countries are sending invitations. However, before 2011 ends, the Rapporteur will launch a new website. Wait and see!
* Reconstruction after natural disasters: developments
In the beginning of the month, recommendations made by Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik in her report on post-disaster reconstruction and the right to housing were debated during the “Global Shelter Housing, Land and Property Cluster Meeting”, an event that brings together humanitarian agencies, multilateral organisms and UN programs working with the reconstruction of countries that suffered from natural disasters or armed conflicts. Learn more.
* Mission in Israel
The next mission of the Rapporteur, in 2012, will be in Israel/OPT and already has a confirmed date: from January 30 to February 12. Currently the locations that will be visited are being decided, as well as the central themes of the mission. Please contact us if you can contribute. There is still time!
* Invitations to missions
In October, during the UN General Assembly, the governments of Brazil and Chile invited Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik to visit their countries in 2012. Rwanda had already made an invitation. Besides that, the governments of Honduras, India and Indonesia have also sent invitations to the Rapporteur for missions in 2012. Usually, only two visits a year are made by the Rapporteur. To find out which countries have already been visited by the special Rapporteur, click here.
* Coming soon
The website of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing is being totally renovated. Wait and see!
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