GENEVA (8 August 2019) – UN human rights experts said the international community has a duty to stand by their collective promise to protect the rights of the Palestinian people, and to take decisive...

GENEVA (26 July 2019) ‑ Two UN human rights experts have condemned Israel’s demolition of 10 buildings comprising approximately 70 housing units in Sur Baher, a Palestinian neighbourhood of East...

This report finds that housing conditions for indigenous peoples around the world are overwhelmingly abhorrent and too often violate the right to adequate housing, depriving them of their right to live in security and dignity.

GENEVA (4 July 2019) ‑ UN human rights experts* have urged the Government of India to prevent the potential eviction of up to nine million people, most of whom are forest dwellers and members of...

GENEVA (24 June 2019) – A UN expert says the Canadian Government has set a global example with a new housing policy that embraces human rights as the most effective framework to address homelessness...

Summary 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, Leilani Farha, conducted an...

French 1. Introduction Access to ‘adequate housing’ as understood in international human rights law is an issue confronting many in France: There is insufficient affordable housing supply, including...

French GENEVA / PARIS (12 April 2019) - France, known as a birthplace of human rights, must improve its approach to housing and end a host of contradictions in the implementation of the right to...

French GENEVA (2 April 2018) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Leilani Farha, is visiting France upon invitation of the Government from 2 to 11 April. The human rights...

GENEVA (2 April 2019) - UN human rights experts* condemned the Indian Government’s decision to deport three more Rohingya to Myanmar and urged the authorities to stop such forced deportations which...