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Paper 21 - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND SHELTER: A HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND SHELTER: A HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE
Clarence J. Dias & Scott Leckie
Table of Contents
Part I - Human
Rights-Based Approach to Development
1. Human Rights and Development: Interlinkages and Interdependence
2. The International Law on Development and the Human Right to Development
The Human Right to Development (HRD)
UN World Conferences and the Human Right to Development
The International Law on Development: Core Content
Sources of ILD
Core Principles of ILD
3. The UN Human Rights System
4. The Road Ahead from Istanbul
Part 2 - Housing
Rights, Human Rights and Human Development: Intertwined and Inseparable
1. Introduction
2. Common Questions and Misperceptions About Housing Rights
Housing Rights Are Too Vague To Be Defined
Are States Obliged to Build Homes for Everyone?
Aren't Housing Rights Only a Part of the Larger Right to an Adequate
Standard of Living?
National Laws Do Not Recognize Housing Rights, So How Can International
Law?
Are States Which Have International Legal Obligations on Housing Rights
Required to Adopt National Legislation?
Is the Adoption of National Legislation Sufficient for States to Comply
with Their Legal Obligations?
Housing Rights Cannot Be Violated in the Same Way as Other Human Rights
Housing Rights Are Not Justiciable
Housing Rights Are Unaffordable
3. The Way Forward: Several Ways to Make Housing Rights Real
New International Standard-Setting
The Appointment by the UN Commission on Human Rights of a Special Rapporteur
on Housing Rights
Preventing Housing Rights Violations: Strengthening the Activities
of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNCHS (Habitat)
Critically Examining 'Enablement' as the Primary Global Housing Policy
National Housing Rights Acts in All States
Exposing and Prosecuting Housing Rights Violators
Appendices
Annex I: Content of the Right to Development
Annex II: A Synthesis of State Obligations
Annex III: CBO's and NGO's Working for Housing Rights