WUNRN
UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR
ON HOUSING REPORT TO THE UN 2011
WOMEN & ADEQUATE HOUSING
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Summary |
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This report focuses on the question of women and their right to adequate housing – looking at progress to date and further efforts needed – to ensure that women everywhere are able to enjoy this right in practice. Specifically, and so as to build on work previously done under the mandate, this report focuses on recent legal and policy advancements in the area of women‘s right to adequate housing, including issues related to inheritance, land and property, as well as strategies for overcoming persistent gaps in implementation of those laws and policies. The report also presents a gender-sensitive analysis of the right to adequate housing and concludes with specific recommendations to States and United Nations agencies and human rights mechanisms to improve the enjoyment of this right for women worldwide. |
Excerpt
- "For women across the world, the right to adequate housing is as yet
unrealized. The status of women‘s right to adequate housing is central not only
to understanding the female face of poverty worldwide, but also to
understanding the dynamics of gender inequality itself, both within and outside
the home.......The recognition and realization of every woman‘s right to
adequate housing is necessary to ensuring that every woman is able to live a
life with dignity."
