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UNITED NATIONS PRINCIPLES ON HOUSING AND PROPERTY RESTITUTION

FOR REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS - THE PINHEIRO PRINCIPLES

 

Direct Link to Pinheiro Principles:

http://www.cohre.org/store/attachments/Pinheiro%20Principles.pdf

 

COHRE Website Link:

http://www.cohre.org/view_page.php?page_id=148

"Principle 2: All refugees and displaced persons have the right to have restored to them any housing, land or property of which they were arbitrarily or unlawfully deprived..."

This booklet contains the full text of an important new international standard which outlines the rights of refugees and displaced persons to return not only to their countries when they see fit to do so, but to their original homes and lands as well.

 

WUNRN notes for GENDER:

 

*Principle 2:  All refugees and displaced persons have the right to have restored to them any housing, land or property of which they were arbitrarily or unlawfully deprived..........

 

*Principle 4:  The right to equality between men and women

 

  4.1  States shall ensure the equal right of men and women, and the equal right of boys and girls, to housing,

         land and property restitution. States shall ensure the equal right of men and women, and the equal right

         of boys and girls, inter alia, to voluntary return in safety and dignity, legal security of tenure, property

         ownership, equal access to inheritance, as well as the use, control of and access to housing, land and property.

 

 4.2  States should ensure that housing, land and property restitution programmes, policies and practices recognize

        the joint ownership rights of both male and female heads of the household as an explicit component of the      

        restitution process, and that restitution programmes, policies and practices reflect a gender-sensitive approach.

 

 4.3  States shall ensure that housing, land and property restitution programmes, policies and practices do not

        disadvantage women and girls. States should adopt positive measures to ensure gender equality in this regard.

 

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