Report - Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights

Habitat International Coalition
Housing and Land Rights Network
LOSS MATRIX 5
Quantifying Violations to <strong>the</strong> Right to Adequate Housing
A Tool for Evaluating <strong>the</strong> Effects <strong>of</strong> Demolitions,
Confiscations and Forced Evictions
Introduction:
The purpose <strong>of</strong> this matrix is to help determine <strong>the</strong> value <strong>of</strong> losses incurred by victims <strong>of</strong> housing rights
violations. Using this tool will aid in <strong>the</strong> various necessary stages <strong>of</strong> proper monitoring <strong>of</strong> specific
violations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> right to housing, including:
1. Documentation and recording
2. Monitoring and reporting
3. Quantifying/evaluating
4. Identifying and solving problems
5. Follow-up assessments
6. Fact-finding missions
7. Public information and campaigns
8. Social mobilisation
9. Media work
10. Compensation efforts
11. Legal defence and prosecution
12. Monitoring international obligations.
It is intended to aid human rights workers responsible for each stage in <strong>the</strong> process. The matrix can
also serve as a tool for organizing tasks so as to aid coordination when more than one individual or
organisation is involved in <strong>the</strong> process.
The loss matrix helps to identify <strong>the</strong> material and non-material losses that arise from violations <strong>of</strong>
housing rights. It can be used as a tool for bolstering legal defence, policy analysis, securing
compensation or public information and <strong>the</strong> mobilisation <strong>of</strong> support for <strong>the</strong> movement to ultimately
end <strong>the</strong> violation <strong>of</strong> women’s rights and provide redress and compensation / restitution for victims
<strong>of</strong> violations.
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This summarises HIC-HLRN’s Loss Matrix.
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