International Year of Shelter for the Homeless

A/RES/41/190View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1987.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 1982–1989

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/43/180

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1989	A/RES/43/180	International Year of Shelter for the Homeless	371	17%Compare
1987	A/RES/41/190	International Year of Shelter for the Homeless	588	16%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/203	International Year of Shelter for the Homeless	679	28%Compare
1985	A/RES/39/171	International Year of Shelter for the Homeless	480	12%Compare
1984	A/RES/38/168	International Year of Shelter for the Homeless	1,502	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Budget Contributions Homeless Persons Housing Finance Housing Improvement Housing Needs Housing Policy Informal Settlements International Years Project Implementation

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Endorses the report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) on the International Y ear of Shelter for the Homeless and the Plan of Action for 1986-1987;46 2.

Urg_es Governments to demonstrate renewed political comm1tment to the shelter needs ofthe poor and disadvantaged by taking significant measures before 1987, including providing access to land and ensuring security of t~nure in squatter settlements, adapting codes and regulat1on~ !º t~e n~eds of. the people, facilitating community parttc1patton, 1mprovmg access to credit and loans and promoting local and atfordable building materials;

A/so urges Governments:

(a)_ To prepare or_review shel~er strategies, taking into cons1derat1on the opt1ons set out m the documentation for the Year;

To prepare a programme to implement projects geared to their chosen shelter strategies;

!{equ~s~s- G<;>vernments to submi! detailed reports on theu act1v1ttes m the Year to the Umted Nations Cent~e _for Hur!1an Settlements (Habitat) as soon as possible, g1vmg spec1al _attention to measures that will improve the shelter and ne1ghbourhoods of sorne of the poor and disadvantaged during 1987 and to their strategies to improve the shelter and neighbourhoods of the poor by the year 2000;

Requests ali Governments, bilateral and multilateral a\d agenci~ and finai:ici~l institutions to review their polic1es and ra1se the pnonty of shelter and settlements improvement programmes;

Appeals to all Governments to make or increase voluntary contributions to the Y ear and to ali international agencies and financial institutions to provide etfective financial and other support to the programme of the Year;

Decides to devote at least two plenary meetings at its forty-second session, in 1987, to issues related to shelter in observance of the International Y ear of Shelter for th; Homeless.

44 See Repon of Habita/: Uniled Nations Conference on Human Se11/emen1s,

Vancouver, 31 May-1 J June 1976 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.IV.7 and corrigendum), chaps. 11 and 111.

47 Reporl of the World Foud Cunference, Rome, 5-16 Novcmber 1974 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.75.11.A.3), chap. L

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