Newsletter # 14

Next month, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, will present to the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, the second version of her report on housing reconstruction after natural disasters and the right to housing. Taking advantage of the occasion, the Rapporteur will also promote as a side event the debate “More than Housing Reconstruction: The Right to Adequate Housing in Disaster Relief and Recovery”, to take place in the side lines of the presentation of the report. The debate will bring together government representatives, human rights specialists, non-governmental organizations and representatives of donors agencies. The event is open to all.

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* Reconstruction after disasters
On October 21, Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik will present to the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, the new version of her report on housing reconstruction after natural disasters and the right to housing, which incorporates government contributions made at the presentation of the report’s first version to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, last March, and includes recent case studies, such as Haiti and Pakistan. To read the report, click here.

* Side Event
Also on October 21, at the same time and place as the UN General Assembly, the Rapporteur will promote the debate “More than Housing Reconstruction: The Right to Adequate Housing in Disaster Relief and Recovery”. To learn more, click here.

* Communications reports
Communications reports from all the Special Rapporteurs are available online. The reports were presented at the 18th session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva. To read the summary of communications from the Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, sent from March of 2010 to May of 2011, click here.

* To learn more
Did you know that the Rapporteur has a flickr photo gallery? In it, you can find pictures from all the missions and activities the Rapporteur attends throughout the world. To access flickr, click here.