GI-ESCR and partners come together to address the challenges for realising housing rights in the context of environmental degradation, urbanization and climate change

GI-ESCR and partners meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on the housing, Leilani Farha in Geneva, March 2020.

In the context of our project on Local struggles for housing rights, in the context of environmental degradation, urbanisation and climate change, in March 2020, together with our partner, Miseror, GI-ESCR welcomed to Geneva our partners Jaqueline Martínez of Fundación Salvadoreña de Desarrollo y Vivienda Mínima (El Salvador), Aizighode Obinyan, Spaces for Change (Nigeria) and Jules Dumas Nguebou of Association pour l’Amour du Livre et le Développement Local (Cameroon). Also participating in the project, but unable to join us in Geneva, are the Filippino NGOs Pagtambayayong and Community Organizers Multiversity. 

Together we are drawing attention to the challenges for realizing housing rights in the context of environmental degradation, urbanization and climate change and advocating for States to ramp up measures to fulfil the right to adequate housing and address environmental degradation and climate change.

During their visit to Geneva, partners provided briefings on the housing rights situation in their countries, to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing and the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. They explained how urbanization, environmental degradation and climate change are impacting housing rights in local communities in urban and rural areas and highlighted community-led solutions to protect and fulfil rights in this context.

Learn more about this work at www.gi-escr.org/adequate-housing