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Side-event on the right to housing in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories

Published in Thursday March 7th, 2013 In News on the Rapporteurs

On March 4th, the Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik participated in an expert roundtable with human rights defenders entitled “The Violation of Housing, Land, and Planning Rights in Israel and the OPT: Expert Testimonies from the Field”. The side-event was organized by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, during the 22nd session of the UN Human Rights Council.

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For many, D.C. housing waiting list offers little more than hope

Published in Tuesday November 6th, 2012 In In the media

November 04, 2012 Ceola Lewis has been waiting a long time. In 1975, Lewis signed up for the District’s Housing Choice Voucher Program, which used to be known as Section 8. At the time, she was 19, living with her mother and working a string of low-wage jobs to provide for herself and her newborn daughter. […]

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Priced out? The housing prices dividing London

Published in Tuesday November 6th, 2012 In In the media

November 06, 2012 Can a new council house scheme aimed at middle income families help to solve the housing crisis in London? And will it preserve the mixed communities the capital is famous for, or increase polarization? London boasts some of the highest-value real estate in the world. Since the onset of the economic crisis, […]

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“Financial credit for homeownership is not an adequate solution for the world’s poor”, says UN expert on housing

Published in Tuesday November 6th, 2012 In News on the Rapporteurs

Financial markets have taken over the housing sector, resulting in a detrimental effect on the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing, especially for the poor, UN Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik said today, urging governments to adopt broader policies and interventions for the housing sector.

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Brazil’s indigenous fight for their land

Published in Monday October 29th, 2012 In In the media

October 28, 2012 In an open letter, the indigenous Guarani-Kaiowa tribe of Brazil has asked for their collective death in order to avoid expulsion from their land. They are up against the agriculture lobby and facing an uphill battle. Members of the Guarani-Kaiowa, Brazil’s second largest indigenous group, wrote an to the government, stating they […]

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Innovative funding model allows urban poor to determine their own future

Published in Friday October 19th, 2012 In In the media

October 08, 2012 The first global fund to give poor people direct control over urban development spending is having more than just a local impact Rose Molokoane, who helps allocate millions of dollars to urban improvement projects around the world, lives in a South African informal settlement. She has spent more than 20 years organising […]

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Declaration by HIC President for World Habitat Day 2012

Published in Tuesday October 2nd, 2012 In Social movement news

September 30th, 2012 World Habitat Day No more profit! Defending our rights to land, housing and the city In the past few years, documents of all kinds have tirelessly repeated an unprecedented fact: for the first time in history, half of the global human population –about 3.4 billion– lives in cities. It is expected that […]

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A TOWN BY AND FOR ITS INHABITANTS

Published in Thursday September 27th, 2012 In Social movement news

From 27th to 29th September 2012, The Geneva Habitat Forum has the pleasure to welcome civil society and academic actors, political figures and Inhabitants from here and elsewhere to reimagine a town as a place by and for its inhabitants.

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State Funds Slum Upgrading Projects in Kenya

Published in Thursday September 20th, 2012 In In the media

September 19, 2012 THE government has spent more than Sh49 million in various development housing projects in Homa Bay town. The projects, under the Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme, include ten classrooms, one health centre, an ECD hall and a block of pit latrines at Rabuor Masawa Primary School. Others are a health centre at Makongeni […]

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Communications report already available in our website – Newsletter #25

Published in Tuesday September 18th, 2012


In September, all the communications sent by Special Rapporteurs to countries during the last months were publicized and presented to the UN Human Rights Council. The document is already available on our website. In October, on the 29th, Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik will present to the UN General Assembly her report on housing finance and its impact on the right to adequate housing . The report will be presented and discussed publicly at the City University of New York (CUNY) on October 26th.