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Attached is the Full Report of the
UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing to the UN Human Rights Council 2007.
UN Human Rights Council - 5th
Session - Council Monitory - June 11, 2007
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UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON
ADEQUATE HOUSEING AS A COMPONENT OF THE RIGHT TO AN ADEQUATE STANDARD OF
LIVING.
Mr. Miloon Kothari
Gender Excerpts of Report to UN
Human Rights Council - June 2007
Full Statement is available at above
Link.
"Regarding his activities, the
Special Rapporteur stated that he was in constant dialogue with the UN treaty
bodies, especially the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW) and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to develop a
general comment on the right to adequate housing."
"On his report, Mr. Kothari
mentioned that the questionnaire concerning women and the right to adequate
housing and land served as a basis for seven regional consultations and was now
a useful tool to monitor the implementation of this right."
"The Rapporteur stated that the
elements of the right to adequate housing are as follows: adaptability,
accessibility, affordability and security of tenure. He continued that land was
a critical element of the human right to housing."
"He then dealt with the issue
of forced eviction, referring to his work with the German Foreign Office on
guidelines for forced evictions that provided practical steps for States to
ensure the right to adequate housing. These guidelines correspond to new stringent
criteria and include a gender perspective. He also insisted that he received
complaints on this issue from every part of the world and that this was
reflected in his communications, as well as other issues such as violence
against women, discrimination and access to land and livelihood."
"Among his recommendations, Mr.
Kothari declared that the Human Rights Council should recognise the right to
adequate housing as a human right, test and adapt the indicators on the right
to housing, incorporate the guidelines on forced eviction in States' domestic
law and revisit the 2006 recommendations on women and housing."
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