Right to adequate housing |
UNDROP
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas |
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1. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to adequate housing. They have the right to sustain a secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity, and the right to non-discrimination in this context. 2. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to be protected against forced eviction from their home, harassment and other threats. 3. States shall not, arbitrarily or unlawfully, either temporarily or permanently, remove peasants or other people working in rural areas against their will from the homes or
land that they occupy without providing or affording access to appropriate forms of legal or other protection. When eviction is unavoidable, the State must provide or ensure fair and just compensation for any material or other losses.
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Legal recognition and allocation of tenure rights and duties
8. Public land, fisheries and forests |
8.5
States should determine which of the land, fisheries and forests they own or control will be retained and used by the public sector, and which of these will be allocated for use by others and under what conditions.
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Right to adequate housing |
UNDRIP
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
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Indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories. No relocation shall take place without the free, prior and informed consent of the indigenous peoples concerned and after agreement on just and fair
compensation and, where possible, with the option of return.
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Legal recognition and allocation of tenure rights and duties
8. Public land, fisheries and forests |
8.5
States should determine which of the land, fisheries and forests they own or control will be retained and used by the public sector, and which of these will be allocated for use by others and under what conditions.
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Right to adequate housing |
UNDRIP
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
21.1
Indigenous peoples have the right, without discrimination, to the improvement of their economic and social conditions, including, inter alia, in the areas of education, employment, vocational training and retraining, housing, sanitation, health and social security.
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Legal recognition and allocation of tenure rights and duties
8. Public land, fisheries and forests |
8.5
States should determine which of the land, fisheries and forests they own or control will be retained and used by the public sector, and which of these will be allocated for use by others and under what conditions.
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Right to adequate housing |
UNDRIP
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
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Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for exercising their right to development. In particular, indigenous peoples have the right to be actively involved in developing and determining health, housing and other economic and social programmes affecting them and, as far as possible, to administer such programmes through their own institutions.
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Legal recognition and allocation of tenure rights and duties
8. Public land, fisheries and forests |
8.5
States should determine which of the land, fisheries and forests they own or control will be retained and used by the public sector, and which of these will be allocated for use by others and under what conditions.
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Right to adequate housing |
UDHR
Universal Declaration of human rights |
25.1
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
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Legal recognition and allocation of tenure rights and duties
8. Public land, fisheries and forests |
8.5
States should determine which of the land, fisheries and forests they own or control will be retained and used by the public sector, and which of these will be allocated for use by others and under what conditions.
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Right to adequate housing |
ICESCR
International Covenant of Economic Social and Cultural rights |
11.1
The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The States Parties will take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the essential importance of international cooperation based on free consent
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Legal recognition and allocation of tenure rights and duties
8. Public land, fisheries and forests |
8.5
States should determine which of the land, fisheries and forests they own or control will be retained and used by the public sector, and which of these will be allocated for use by others and under what conditions.
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Right to adequate housing |
ICERD
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination |
5.e.iii
In compliance with the fundamental obligations laid down in article 2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following rights: [..] (e) Economic, social and cultural rights, in particular: [..] (iii) The right to housing
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Legal recognition and allocation of tenure rights and duties
8. Public land, fisheries and forests |
8.5
States should determine which of the land, fisheries and forests they own or control will be retained and used by the public sector, and which of these will be allocated for use by others and under what conditions.
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Right to adequate housing |
ICEDAW
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women |
12.2.h
States Parties shall undertake all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in rural areas in order to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women, that they participate in and benefit from rural development and, in particular, shall ensure to such women the right … (h) to enjoy adequate living conditions, particularly in relation to housing, sanitation, electricity and water supply, transport and communications
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Legal recognition and allocation of tenure rights and duties
8. Public land, fisheries and forests |
8.5
States should determine which of the land, fisheries and forests they own or control will be retained and used by the public sector, and which of these will be allocated for use by others and under what conditions.
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Right to adequate housing |
ICRPD
International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities |
28.1
States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to an adequate standard of living for themselves and their families, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions, and shall take appropriate steps to safeguard and promote the realization of this right without discrimination on the basis of disability.
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Legal recognition and allocation of tenure rights and duties
8. Public land, fisheries and forests |
8.5
States should determine which of the land, fisheries and forests they own or control will be retained and used by the public sector, and which of these will be allocated for use by others and under what conditions.
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