UN Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik’s Report: Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, including the Right to Development.
The document is the Special Rapporteur’s report 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, Raquel Rolnik, on her mission to the United States of America.
Find the Special Rapporteur’s report here: Promotion and Protection of all Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, including the Right to Development
Grass Roots Report: Our Voices Must be Heard
One year after the Rapporteur’s historic visit, the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights published its own grassroots report entitled Our Voices Must be Heard.
This report celebrates and acknowledges the growing human right to housing movement in the United Sates, a movement of activists, grassroots organizations and advocates that traverse geographic, racial, and economic boundaries. It also acknowledges the fundamental links between this long standing struggle and the crisis facing the newly impacted in the financial and housing crisis that emerged in 2007-2008.
Find the Report here: Our Voices Must Be Heard