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Housing & Shelter

In this section you will find information and relevant documents relating to housing & shelter issues. Click on the links to go to the relevant documents and paragraphs or download all listed documents in one TXT FILE (118 KB) or ZIP FILE (43 KB).

UN Documents

Universal Declaration of Human Rights,   Article 25

Convention on Economic Social and Cultural Rights,   Article 11

Habitat II Conference on Human Settlements, Istanbul 1996
Preamble
Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements (esp. Paragraph 7)
Chapter III Commitments, Chapter D Gender Equality

See also:
UNCHS's list of "Milestones in the History of International Standards on Forced Evictions"
Statement by Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

For a complete list of articles in international instruments in which the right to adequate housing is laid down, please contact:
the Women and Habitat Programme at UNCHS (Habitat), Marjolein Benschop, Email marjolein.benschop@unchs.org
or the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), 83 Rue Montbrillant, Geneva 1202, Switzerland, Email sleckie@ibm.net

 

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