Keyword: Special Rapporteur
Report of the Special rapporteur on adequate housing and the global crisis
The present report is the first one presented to the Human Rights Council by the new mandate holder, Raquel Rolnik, who took up her position on 1 May 2008. In view of the current crisis in the housing and financial sector, the Special Rapporteur decided to devote this thematic report to the consequences of certain economic, financial and housing policies and approaches that have seriously impacted the right to adequate housing in the past decades and have contributed to the present crisis.
Participate in the First UN Housing Mission to the United States
Campaign to restore National Housing Right
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, for the first time and in coordination with NESRI, the NLCHP and grassroots housing rights organizations across the country, will visit officially the United States from October 22 - November 8.
Maldives: climate change threatens right to housing, says UN expert
Raquel Rolnik, Special Rapporteur on adequate housing
26 February 2009 – Rising sea levels and coastal erosion, both wrought by climate change, threaten the viability of Maldives, but overcrowding and other impacts are already felt by the island nation’s 300,000 people, a United Nations independent expert cautioned today.
IAI welcomed the decision to extends the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing
The UN Human Rights Council, during its 15th session in late September, decided to extend for a period of three years the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. Concerning the permanency of Raquel Rolnik as Special Rapporteur, initially stablished to end up on April 2011, it will be appreciated by the Council in March 2011, who will decide if her mandate should be extended for an additional period of three years.
The IAI welcomed the decision, saying that it demonstrated a commitment of the international community to acknowledge the challenges the world still faces, and confirmed his willing to collaborate with Raquel Rolnik to defend the right to adequate housing, without borders.
Israel’s policies violate right to housing and need urgent revision – UN independent rights expert
An UN independent rights expert: Israel’s policies violate right to housing (EPA, 13 02 2012)
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, warned that recent privatization, deregulation and commercialization of public assets in Israel “have resulted in urban and housing policies that made it increasingly difficult for low income families to obtain affordable accommodation, violating their right to adequate housing.”
U.S. Cities Criminalize Homelessness, Violate Human Rights Agreements
Jimmy Toon, right, 59, of Fancy Farm, Ky., talks with two men while sitting in the shade at a homeless camp in Paducah, Ky. The site, known as Tent City, has 20 to 30 homeless people residing in tents. (AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee, July 2011)
The challenges poor and homeless Americans often face accessing clean drinking water and restroom facilities violate international human rights standards, according to a report issued by a United Nations investigator this month. Catarina de Albuquerque, a U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation, visited the United States in late February at the invitation of the U.S. government.