Articles in: Right to Housing -Articles --- 3 articles found --- Click on the titles --- UN Special Rapporteur Tue, May 22 2007 Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing The present report, submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council decision 1/102, aims at providing practical and operational tools to promote, monitor and implement the human right to adequate housing. The report also identifies a normative gap - the non-recognition in international human rights law of the human right to land. >> SOURCEVERSION Habitat Netz Sat, Nov 18 2006, pdf Evictions, real estate pressure and rental refugees in Germany If you would ask any official, if there are "forced evictions" in the meaning of General Comment No. 7,1 s/he would deny and could give many correct arguments referring to (a) the developed legal system of safeguards in Germany and (b) to market forces. Let's see how far we nevertheless can speak about housing rights violations in Germany.
Document: Knut Unger: "Housing Rights and Real Estate Violence in Germany", , 2006, pdf
>> PDF DOWNLOAD OCHR - UN Habitat Sun, Dec 15 2002 Housing rights legislation - international and national legal instruments (PDF) This research report by UN Habitat and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has been prepared to promote global understanding of the linkages between housing and human rights. Its focus is on housing law and how it can be used by States and the international community to address the problems of homelessness, forced evictions and housing deprivation from a human rights perspective. >> SOURCEVERSION | 
