Report - Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights

Contents
1. Executive Summary 1
2. Overview <strong>of</strong> Regional Consultation 5
2.1 Background 5
2.2 UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing 6
2.3 Introduction to <strong>the</strong> legal concepts and framework <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> human right to
adequate housing 8
2.4 The elements <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> human right to adequate housing as a monitoring framework 10
2.4.1 The Tool Kit 11
2.5 “Unpacking” and applying <strong>the</strong> Tool Kit to <strong>the</strong> right to adequate housing and gender 14
2.5.1 Non-discrimination and gender equality in <strong>the</strong> right to adequate housing 14
2.6 Using UN human rights mechanisms 17
3. Critical Issues: Women, Land, Housing and Inheritance in <strong>the</strong> Pacific 21
3.1 Violence against women 22
3.1.1 Domestic violence 22
3.1.2 Women in conflict and post-conflict situations 25
3.2 Intersectional discrimination 26
3.2.1 Discrimination against indigenous and rural women 26
3.2.2 Discrimination against lesbians 31
3.2.3 Discrimination against ethnic women 34
3.2.4 Discrimination against women with disabilities 36
3.3 Urbanisation 37
3.4 Land, inheritance, property rights and customary law 39
4. Regional Trends and Patterns in Pacific Women’s Rights to Land and Housing 47
5. Strategies 49
5.1 Local level 49
5.2 National level 51
5.3 Regional level 51
5.4 International level 52
6. Recommendations for <strong>the</strong> Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing 53
7. Conclusion 54
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