Adequate Housing as a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living

A/HRC/RES/15/8View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2010.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2008–2014

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/25/17

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2014	A/HRC/RES/25/17	Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living	1,174	36%Compare
2010	A/HRC/RES/15/8	Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living	731	31%Compare
2008	A/HRC/RES/6/27	Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living	1,556	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Anti-Discrimination Measures Fact-Finding Missions Gender Equality Minorities Right to Housing Socially Disadvantaged Persons Special Procedures Special Rapporteurs Standard of Living Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Acknowledges with appreciation 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;

Decides to extend for a period of three years the mandate 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, in order that he or she may, inter alia:

Promote the full realization of the right to adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living;

Identify best practices as well as challenges and obstacles to the full realization of the right to adequate housing, and identify protection gaps in this regard;

Give particular emphasis to practical solutions with regard to the implementation of the rights relevant to the mandate;

Apply a gender perspective, including through the identification of gender-specific challenges to the realization of the right to adequate housing;

Pay special attention to the needs of persons in vulnerable situations as well as those belonging to marginalized groups;

Facilitate the provision of technical assistance, including through engagement with relevant stakeholders;

Work in close cooperation, while avoiding unnecessary duplication, with other special procedures and subsidiary organs of the Council, relevant United Nations bodies, the treaty bodies and regional human rights mechanisms;

Submit a regular report on the implementation of his or her mandate to the Council and the General Assembly in accordance with their annual programme of work;

Notes the work on the basic principles and guidelines on development-based evictions and displacement and the need to continue to work on them, including through consultations with States and other stakeholders;

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

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

The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its fifteenth session (A/HRC/15/60), chap. I.

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