In the context of the elaboration of the Global Housing Strategy to the year 2025 and within the framework of UN-HABITATs Adequate Housing for All Programme and the UN Housing Rights Programme, more than 50 experts, observers, representatives of governments, and representatives of Permanent and Observer Missions to UN-HABITAT in Nairobi exchanged views and contributed knowledge and ideas to the discussions on the future role of UN-HABITAT with respect to preventing, monitoring and assessing the impact of forced evictions globally. Please click here to download the formal and consensus-based observations and recommendations to UN-HABITAT. Experts recognized UN-HABITAT's progressive engagement on and commitment to socially inclusive and sustainable urban development and slum prevention/upgrading and called upon UN-HABITAT to articulate its human rights mandate as a UN organization, especially the right to adequate housing and the right not to be forcibly evicted. See below for background documents.
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