Adequate Housing as a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living and the Right to Non-Discrimination in This Context

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 3Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2018.

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8 versions · 2016–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/61/16

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4 topics

Equality Right to Housing Standard of Living Sustainable Development

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14 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non- discrimination in this context, including the undertaking of country missions, and takes note of her reports;

Calls upon States:

To implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including target 11.1, and in this context urges States to adopt, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, including civil society, national human rights institutions and the private sector, inclusive and cross-sectoral strategies that respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of all, and to ensure that these strategies outline clear responsibilities at all levels of government, contain measurable goals, targets and timelines and include appropriate mechanisms for regular monitoring and review, with particular emphasis on the needs of persons who are marginalized and most vulnerable;

To give due consideration to integrating the human right to adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda;

To take positive measures with a view to prevent and eliminate homelessness by adopting and implementing cross-sectoral strategies that are gender-, age- and disability-responsive and based on international human rights law;

To take measures necessary to curb factors that result in a lack of affordable housing, such as housing speculation and the “financialization of housing”, and to ensure an effective remedy and the right to access to justice for all for violations in the context of the realization of the right to adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, including measures necessary to ensure that women and persons at risk have equal access to justice;

To ensure that the principles of equality and non-discrimination are respected when fulfilling the right to adequate housing, and in this respect to take measures to the maximum of available resources to address systemic homelessness and deprivation of housing, which disproportionately affects persons with disabilities, and to strive towards the full realization of the right to adequate housing for all, including for persons with disabilities;

To take steps necessary to ensure women’s equal right to adequate housing in all aspects of housing strategies by, inter alia, addressing women’s distinct housing experiences, including discrimination, violence against women and the disproportionate impact on women of forced evictions, inadequate water and sanitation services and pervasive poverty, and by undertaking legislative and other reforms to realize the equal rights of women and men, as well as girls and boys where applicable, to access economic and productive resources, including land and natural resources, and property and inheritance rights;

Requests the Special Rapporteur, in fulfilling her mandate, to participate in relevant international dialogues and policy forums relating to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly the implementation of Goals 1 and 11, and the New Urban Agenda, taking into account the need for an integrated approach to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, and to undertake thematic research with a view to advise States, intergovernmental organizations, civil society and other stakeholders on how to effectively respect, protect and fulfil the right to adequate housing, and non-discrimination in this context;

Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide all the assistance necessary to the Special Rapporteur for the effective fulfilment of her mandate;

Notes with appreciation the cooperation extended to date to the Special Rapporteur by different actors, and calls upon States:

To continue to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur in the discharge of her mandate and to respond favourably to her requests for information and visits;

To enter into a constructive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur with respect to the follow-up to and implementation of her recommendations;

Decides to continue its consideration of this matter under the same agenda item.

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