Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions 131

Women and adequate housing

The Commission on Human Rights,

The human right to adequate housing

8.1 Everyone has the right to adequate housing.

Legal recognition and implementation of women's rights to adequate housing and land 70 71 20

B. Questionnaire on women's right to adequate housing

Legal recognition and implementation of women's rights to adequate housing and land

C. Right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, clothing and housing

Reaffirming also the explicit references contained in the Global Strategy concerning the human right to adequate housing,

Within the framework of UNHRP a study, Indigenous peoples' right to adequate housing a global overview , has been prepared.

Principal amongst these is the interlinkage between violence against women and women's right to adequate housing.

Several meetings were held on the right to adequate housing and land which highlighted the critical role of women.

The Special Rapporteur hopes that the momentum generated thus far by the study and the enthusiasm shown from various quarters across the world will be supported by the Commission continuing its attention to women's rights to adequate housing.

(n) Final report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing containing the study on women and adequate housing (resolution 2005 25, para.

Also requests the Special Rapporteur to specifically consider the impact of natural disasters on women's adequate housing

Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development, adopted by the World Summit for Social Development on 12 March 1995, Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6 12 March 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No.

The Special Rapporteur recognized that women's right to adequate housing is often violated on account of multiple discriminations.

The format developed for the consultations consists of an initial training on monitoring and advocating for women's human rights using the HIC HLRN Tool Kit, followed by the presentation of individual testimonies on themes relevant to women and housing in specific regions (e.g. violence against women, globalization, exclusion and segregation, land, and culture).

Recognizing the central importance of grass roots democratic participation in the process leading towards the full realization of the right to adequate housing,

As elaborated on in the Special Rapporteur's report on homelessness, the right to land is inextricably linked to the right to adequate housing.

During the reporting period there have been no changes in national policies, laws and practices negatively affecting the right to adequate housing.

The Special Rapporteur would like to specifically thank HIC HLRN, Asia Pacific Forum on Women in Law and Development (APWLD), International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW AP) and Social Watch for their support throughout the consultations and their follow up processes.

Paragraph (e) This paragraph, which refers to changes in national policies and laws adversely affecting the right to adequate housing, does not apply.

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3.3 The petitioners contend that article 5, paragraph (e), subparagraph (iii), was violated as the State party failed to safeguard the petitioners' right to adequate housing.

The number of female headed households is increasing, but testimonies and statistics indicate that women are less likely to be accepted for loans, credit and mortgage schemes, which limits their access to formal housing.

The Millennium Development Goals represent an important opportunity to ensure that women's human rights are fully realized, including their right to adequate housing.

There is a need for stronger standards at the national and international levels addressing the linkages between violence against women and the right to adequate housing.

The present report is submitted late so as to include as much up to date information as possible.

2005 25 Women's equal ownership, access to and control over land and the equal rights to own property and to adequate housing

Guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,

For example, in parts of the Pacific region, women are unable to access their right to adequate housing without first accessing rights to land.

(d) Sufficient funds.

Just enough repetition.

I will take enough of these.

She arranges a house for herself, but the flimsiest of houses is the spider's.

But the most fragile of houses is the spider s house.

Furthermore, in adhering to his mandate, the Special Rapporteur emphasizes the adoption of an indivisibility of rights approach to promoting women's rights to adequate housing.

Cultural norms and practices are particularly relevant when considering women's right to property and its connection with their right to adequate housing.

Mindful of the ongoing difficulties of States to ensure the right to adequate housing to all, as well as the international nature of many of these impediments,

A person's home is inviolable

(b) Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living (resolution 2004 21, para. 7 (c))

No. 4 (1991) on the right to adequate housing (article 11, para. 1, of the Covenant) (sixth session E 1992 23 E C.12 1991 4, annex III)