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A/HRC/52/28: Towards a just transformation: climate crisis and the right to housing – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal

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The report highlights that the climate crisis is severely threatening the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing around the world and that housing itself makes a significant contribution to climate change. It calls for a just transition towards rights-compliant, climate-resilient and carbon-neutral housing.

Expert: Home destructions during conflict are an international crime

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Locals walk past a residential building that was damaged during shelling in the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, 25 May 2022. © EPA-EFE/SERGEY KOZLOV
“We should stop shutting our eyes to widespread or systematic destruction of civilian homes in conflict,” said Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing. Rajagopal has named these systematic or widespread destruction of homes during conflicts: domicide. He is calling on governments to recognize it as an international crime.