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

A/HRC/RES/25/17View 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 2014.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2008–2014

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?

5 subjects

Principles Right to Housing Right to Security of Tenure Special Rapporteurs Standard of Living

What’s in this document?

11 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;

Acknowledges with appreciation in particular the report of the Special Rapporteur on security of tenure for the urban poor⁴ and the guiding principles on security of tenure for the urban poor as laid out therein, and encourages States to take these guidelines into account when planning and implementing measures to improve the security of tenure for the urban poor;

⁴A/HRC/25/54.

Reaffirms that States have the primary responsibility to ensure the full realization of all human rights and to endeavour to take steps, individually and through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of their available resources, with a view to progressively achieving the full realization of the right to housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living by all appropriate means, including in particular the adoption of legislative measures;

Calls upon States to give due consideration to the human right to adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and to issues related to universal access to decent and sustainable housing in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda;

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, as set out in Human Rights Council resolution 15/8 of 30 September 2010;

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.

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