Women and their right to adequate housing 2012, para. 19

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At the international level, the newly created UN-Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, has incorporated a specific goal on increasing women's access to economic empowerment and opportunities. This focus seeks, inter alia, to promote the adoption and implementation of laws and policies that expand women's economic assets and security, including laws and policies to guarantee equal access to land and property. In addition, the recently created Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice has been tasked by the Human Rights Council with promoting and exchanging views on best practices related to the elimination of laws that discriminate against women or are discriminatory to women in terms of implementation or impact. Doing so will contribute to ending gender discrimination in all parts of the world, as well as to ending systemic violations of women's right to adequate housing.
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)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Women
Year
2012
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Housing, Report to the HRC (2012), A/HRC/19/53, para. 19.
Paragraph number
19