We are pleased to present the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing website! There you will find reports and other documents prepared by the Rapporteur, as well as news on the topic. With this tool, we hope to facilitate access to information concerning the Rapporteur’s work, create a space of reference on the subject and a channel for direct communication with the public. For that purpose, we expect to receive contributions and news from all over the world. Welcome!
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* Planned activities for this semester:
In the first half of September, the Special Rapporteur will conduct a mission to Kazakhstan, and at the end of October there is a planned mission to the World Bank. Please send us information, questions and contacts on the right to housing related to these missions!
* Thematic report being prepared:
We are elaborating a report – to be presented to the Human Rights Council in March 2011 – on the right to housing in the context of post disasters and/or conflicts reconstruction.
If you have references, cases and information on the right to housing related to these situations, send them to us!
* Help to build the Rapporteur’s work:
To contact us or to send news and information, click here.
* Learn More:
To read the thematic reports and those concerning the undertaken missions, click here.
This newsletter is a project of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing and it does contain no official information. Rapporteur (from May 2008): Raquel Rolnik
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