A/HRC/RES/37/4
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 April 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-seventh session
26 February–23 March 2018
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 22 March 2018
37/4.
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,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities,
Recalling also all previous resolutions of the Human Rights Council and those
adopted by the Commission on Human Rights on the issue of the right to adequate housing
as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, including Council resolutions
31/9 of 23 March 2016 and 34/9 of 23 March 2017,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015 entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which the
Assembly adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and
transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, inter alia, the importance of
making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable,
Recalling all previous 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 on women’s equal ownership, access to and control over land and
the equal rights to own property and to adequate housing, and emphasizing the need, in
ensuring housing affordability, to develop strategies that take into account women’s
economic conditions and status, including as a result of gender wage gaps,
Reaffirming the principles and commitments with regard to adequate housing
enshrined in the relevant provisions of declarations and programmes adopted at major
United Nations conferences and summits and at special sessions of the General Assembly
and their follow-up meetings, inter alia, the New Urban Agenda, adopted at the United
Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III),
GE.18-05509(E)