A/HRC/RES/55/11
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 April 2024
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fifth session
26 February–5 April 2024
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 3 April 2024
55/11.
Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard
of living, and the right to non-discrimination in this context
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming that international human rights law instruments, including the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities, entail obligations and commitments of States parties,
including all levels of government, in relation to access to adequate housing,
Reaffirming also that everyone is entitled to the right to adequate housing as a
component of the right to an adequate standard of living, without discrimination of any kind,
Recalling that States have the primary responsibility to ensure the full realization of
all human rights and to endeavour to take steps, individually and through international
assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of their
available resources, with a view to progressively achieve the full realization of the right to
adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living by all
appropriate means, including the adoption of legislative measures,
Recalling also all previous resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights
and the Human Rights Council on the issue of the right to adequate housing as a component
of the right to an adequate standard of living and General Assembly resolution 78/172 of 19
December 2023 on inclusive policies and programmes to address homelessness, including in
the aftermath of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19),
Recalling further all resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights on the
issue of women’s equal rights to ownership of, access to and control over land and the equal
rights to own and inherit property and to adequate housing, including resolution 2005/25 of
15 April 2005,
Reaffirming the principles and commitments with regard to adequate housing
enshrined in the relevant provisions of declarations and programmes adopted by major United
Nations conferences and summits, inter alia, the New Urban Agenda adopted at the United
Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), and
underlining the importance of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, including target 11.1,
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