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Security of Tenure: Legal Sources
International Conventions
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UN General Assembly

  • Resolutions 41/146 (1986), 42/146 (1987), 43/181 (1988) and 46/163 (1991) on the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000;
  • Resolutions 50/195 (1996), 52/130 (1998), 54/167 (2000) and 56/164 (2002) on the Protection of and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons
  • Resolutions 48/109 (1994), 50/165 (1996), 52/93 (1998) on the Improvement of the Situation of Women in Rural Areas

Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

  • Resolution 2000/22 on the Establishment of a Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  • Resolutions 1987/62 on the Realization of the Right to Adequate Housing

UN Commission on Human Rights

  • Resolutions 2000/13, 2001/34, 2002/49, and 2003/22 on Women's Equal Ownership of, Access to and Control over Land and the Equal Rights to Own Property and to Adequate Housing
  • Resolution 2000/53, 2001/54, 2002/56 and 2003/51 on Internally Displaced Persons
  • Resolution 1993/77 on Forced Evictions
  • Resolutions 1986/36, 1987/22 and 1988/24, 2001/28 , 2002/21 on the Right to Adequate Housing as a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living
  • Resolutions 1994/8, 1994/14 on Promoting the Realization of the Right to Adequate Housing

UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

  • Resolution 2002/15 on Indigenous Peoples’ Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources
  • Resolution 2002/30 on the Right to Return of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
  • Resolutions 1998/26 and 2002/7 on Housing and Property Restitution in the Context of Refugees and Other Displaced Persons Resolutions
  • Resolutions 1998/7, 2000/8, 2001/2 and 2002/6 on the Promotion of the Realization of the Right to Drinking Water and Sanitation
  • Resolution 1998/21 on Study on Indigenous Land Rights;
  • Resolutions 1999/21, 2000/14, 2001/10, 2002/21 on Working Paper on Indigenous Peoples and their Relationship to Land (in particular operative paragraphs 8, 9, 8, 16 respectively)
  • Resolution 2002/15 on Indigenous Peoples’ Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources
  • Resolutions 1991/12, 1993/41, 1994/39 , 1996/27 and 1998/9 on Forced Evictions
  • Resolutions 1993/15 , 1994/20, 1995/12 on the Right to Adequate Housing
  • Resolutions 1991/26, 1992/26, 1993/36, 1994/38 , 1995/27 and 1995/19 on Promoting the Realization of the Right to Adequate Housing
  • Resolutions 1997/19 and 1998/15 on Women and the Right to Land, Property and Adequate Housing
  • Resolution 1994/8 on Children and the Right to Adequate Housing

UN Commission on the Status of Women

  • Resolution 42/1 on Human Rights and Land Rights Discrimination, adopted in 1998

UN Commission on Human Settlements

  • Resolution 19/3 on Global Campaigns on Secure Tenure and Urban Governance, adopted 9 May 2003 web link: http://www.unhabitat.org/governingbodies/gcreport_annex1_193.asp
  • Resolution 19/16 on Women’s role and rights in human settlements development and slum upgrading, adopted 9 May 2003. Web link: http://www.unhabitat.org/governingbodies/gcreport_annex1_193.asp
  • Resolution 16/7 on "The realization of the human right to adequate housing" adopted 7 May 1997.
  • Resolution 14/6 on "The human right to adequate housing", adopted 5 May 1993.



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