Promoting the Right to Adequate Housing in Asia and beyond - Gwangju, Oct 2019
Overview
Session name: “Promoting the Right to Adequate Housing in Asia and beyond”
Theme: Exploring ways by which local governments – in cooperation with other
stakeholders and following innovative methodologies – can promote the right to
adequate housing and the human rights based-approach (HRBA) in habitat policies. The
session will focus on the Asian context, and propose tools such as the “Cities for
Adequate Housing” Declaration as concrete roadmaps for local governments to advance
the right to housing. It will welcome inputs from civil society organizations.
Preferred Date: October 1st, 12:00 am to 15:30 pm
Time: 3 hours
Organizers: UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and
Human Rights, the Asia Europe People’s Forum and the International Alliance of
Inhabitants.
