Post conflict and post disaster reconstruction and the right to adequate housing 2011, para. 6
Paragraph- Paragraph text
- There are similarities and differences between post-disaster and post-conflict contexts. While conflicts and disasters often result in large-scale human displacement, deliberate destruction of land records and systems is far more likely in post-conflict than in post-disaster contexts, as is the extent of secondary occupation of homes of those displaced. Housing rights issues in post-conflict situations arise mainly as a consequence of International Humanitarian Law or International Human Rights Law violations committed during the conflict. In post-conflict situations there is therefore the question of how to redress the situation, how to guarantee justice to the victims and support the reconciliation process. Peace agreements and the establishment of transitional justice law frameworks and mechanisms can constitute an opportunity to address the right to adequate housing during post-conflict situations but everything depends on if and how these questions are addressed by these mechanisms and frameworks. The fact that conflicts can last for a long time also implies important differences between post-conflict and post-disaster situations. While taking account of such differences, this report will mainly focus on common issues and questions that arise in both contexts.
- 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
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Housing, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/16/42, para. 6.
- Paragraph number
- 6
sorted by
Date added
69 relationships, 69 entities