A/HRC/RES/31/9
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 April 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-first session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 23 March 2016
31/9.
Adequate housing as a component of the right to an
adequate standard of living, and the right to nondiscrimination in this context
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming that international human rights law instruments, including the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, entail obligations and commitments of States parties, including all levels of
government, in relation to access to adequate housing,
Recalling 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 resolution
25/17 of 28 March 2014,
Recalling also 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 resolution
1997/44 of 11 April 1997, and the report on economic and social policy and its impact on
violence against women submitted by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women,
its causes and consequences pursuant to that resolution,1
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 and at special sessions of the General Assembly
and at their follow-up meetings, inter alia, the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements
and the Habitat Agenda,2 and the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the
New Millennium, adopted at the twenty-fifth special session of the Assembly and annexed
to its resolution S-25/2 of 9 June 2001,
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2
E/CN.4/2000/68/Add.5.
A/CONF.165/14.
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