Women and their right to adequate housing 2012, para. 70

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States should ensure that housing includes water points and sanitation facilities available for and accessible to women, ensuring women their rights to water and sanitation, as well as to health. States should also ensure that housing is adequately located in order to provide women with access to employment options, health-care services, schools, childcare centres and other social facilities, such that they are non-discriminatory, adequate, available and fully accessible to women and girls.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
Document type
Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2012
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Conclusion / Recommendation
Reference
SR Housing, Report to the HRC (2012), A/HRC/19/53, para. 70.
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Conclusion / Recommendation
Paragraph number
70