Regional instruments Legal Sources Introduction What international instruments? Security of Tenure: Legal Sources International Conventions Regional Instruments Resolutions Declarations and Recommendations Agendas and Platforms/Programmes of Action Reports of UN Special Rapporteurs EUROPE European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR, adopted in 1950) Article 8(1): right to home Article 14: non-discrimination Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to ECHR: right to peaceful enjoyment of property European Social Charter (1961, revised in 1996) Article 15(3): the right of disabled persons to access to housing. Article 16: promotion of economic, legal and social protection of family life, including housing. Appendix on Article 16: single-parent families equally protected by this provision. Article 19(4)(c): the right of migrant workers and their families to accommodation Article 23(2)(b): the right of elderly persons to provision of housing adapted to their needs and state of health Article 30(a): the right to protection against poverty and social exclusion, including effective access to housing; Article 31: the right to housing Part III, Article B: links with European Social Charter of 1961 and additional Protocol of 1988 Part V, Article E: non-discrimination European Convention on the Legal Status of Migrant Workers (1977) Article 1: definition of “migrant worker”; Article 13: housing European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights (2000, declaratory status only) Article 17: right to property Article 21: non-discrimination Article 23: equality between men and women Article 25: rights of the elderly Article 26: integration of persons with disabilities Article 34(3): the right to social and housing assistance Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE): Final Act of Helsinki, 1975, Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Principle 1(a)(VII): right of national minorities to equality before the law and actual enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms Principle 1(a)(VIII): equal rights and self-determination of peoples Concluding Document of the Vienna Meeting 1986 of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1989) Principle 14: progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights, including housing Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE (1990) Article 23: progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights, including housing AMERICAS Charter of the Organization of American States (1948) Article 34 (k): basic goal of adequate housing for all sectors of the population American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man (1948) Article XI: the right to preservation of health and well-being, including through social measures related to housing web link: http://www.hrcr.org/docs/OAS_Declaration/oasrights3.html Article XXIII: the right to property American Convention on Human Rights (1969, entry into force 1978) Article 1: non-discrimination; Article 17: equal rights as to, during and upon dissolution of marriage Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1988) Article 3: non-discrimination Article 11: the right to a healthy environment AFRICA African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (1981) Article 2: non-discrimination Article 3: right to equality before the law Article 14: right to property Article 18(3): elimination of all discrimination against women Article 18(4): special measures for protection of aged and disabled Article 21(2): the right to lawful recovery of property, including adequate compensation Article 28: the duty to respect fellow human beings without discrimination Article 29(7): the duty to preserve and strengthen positive African cultural values Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa (adopted 2003, but has not yet entered into force) Article 2: elimination of discrimination Article 7(i): the right to equal marital property Article 16: the right to adequate housing Article 19: the right to sustainable development, including women’s access to land and right to property Article 21: the right to inheritance Article 22: special protection of elderly women and women with disabilities back