Since December last year, the Rapporteur’s site has made available a booklet and brochure about women and the right to housing in four languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic).
The material aims to show how violations to the right to housing especially affect women. To download this and other material, visit section “booklets and teaching material“. You or your organisation may also print and distribute it freely.
Since 2002, during the term of Miloon Kothari, the Rapporteur has been dedicating itself to the matter. Last year, aiming at monitoring the situation of women’s right to housing all over the world, rapporteur Raquel Rolnik returned to the theme, this time through a virtual debate platform, which made possible the participation of around 300 people from over 60 countries.
A general coordinator and seven regional coordinators helped foster the virtual debates. The regional coordinators also contributed with local research on the situation of women’s right to housing in their regions. All these contributions were fundamental for development of material and also the report on the theme.
Next March, Raquel Rolnik should present her report on women and the right to housing to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations.. The report is already available on the women’s theme page.
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