Monitoring the Right to Adequate Housing
Day / Time Wednesday, June 21st / 16:30 - 18:30
Event Description
This workshop will focus on monitoring the human right to adequate housing and land using methodological monitoring tools. It will provide a Toolkit, from the HIC Housing and Land Rights Network, as a problem-solving method for use in monitoring, defending and fulfilling the human right to adequate housing and land. This multi-use Toolkit addresses forced evictions, budgets, women’s rights, post disaster reconstruction, housing and land issues in conflict, policy formulation and other habitat situations. This workshop will provide training for participants on the most comprehensive and effective ways to monitor violations of the right to adequate housing, which also comprises other auxiliary rights including the right to water, food, and employment. The goal is to provide participants with the necessary background in monitoring and the strategic capability to start their own monitoring systems.
Session Language
English
Spanish
Speakers
Joseph Schechla,, coordinator, Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN)
Maher Bushra, Better Life Association for Community Development (Egypt)
Shivani Chaudhry, HLRN, South Asia Regional Programme (India), Issa Samandar, Popular Development Ce
Host Organization
Housing and Land Rights Network and Habitat International Coalition
Host Organization Description
Habitat International Coalition (HIC), the global movement specialized in human settlements since 1976, comprises some 450 members in 80 countries, in the North and South. They include NGOs, community-based organisations, social movements, academic and research centers, professional associations and like-minded individuals dedicated to the struggle against deprivation of well-being and for realizing the human right to adequate housing for all. HIC is coordinated through member-based regional Focal Points, as well as organises members with common interests within thematic structures, including: -Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) -Women and Shelter Network (HIC-WAS) -Habitat and Sustainable Environment Network (HSEN) -Social Production Working Group HLRN shares with general HIC a set of objectives that bind and shape HLRN's commitment to communities struggling to secure housing and improve their well-being and living conditions as a human right. HLRN seeks to: -Advocate the recognition, defence and full implementation of everyone’s right everywhere to a secure place to live in peace and dignity; -Promote public awareness about human settlement problems and needs globally; -Defend the human rights of the poor, displaced, homeless and inadequately housed. -Maintain a progressive platform for formulating common housing-rights strategies.
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