- Title Pages
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
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1 The historical development of the concept of rights -
2 The United Nations and international oversight of human rights -
3 The Council of Europe, the European Convention on Human Rights and the Social Charter -
4 The European Union and human rights -
5 Human rights and the USA -
6 International Humanitarian Law: protecting rights and promoting welfare during war? -
7 The European Union, human rights and international development policy -
8 Socio-economic rights -
9 Cultural rights -
10 Migration and refugees: applying human rights to ‘everyone’? -
11 Conflict, ‘terrorism’ and non-state actors -
12 Gender and human rights -
13 Human rights-based approaches to social policy development -
14 The right to education -
15 The right to healthcare -
16 The right to housing -
17 Children’s rights and social policy -
18 The rights of people with disabilities -
19 The right to development -
20 Conclusion Human rights in a brave new world: the shape of things to come? - Index
The right to housing
The right to housing
- Chapter:
- (p.209) 16 The right to housing
- Source:
- International Human Rights, Social Policy & Global
- Author(s):
Dessie Donnelly
Joe Finnerty
Cathal O’Connell
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter describes the human rights-based approach to housing and analyses it from a critical social policy perspective. The first section outlines the importance of housing as a human right, the second explores the distinctiveness of housing and a third section provides a case study of a community advocacy group, Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR), using international human rights instruments such as the UN International Covenant for Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) to promote housing rights. Finally, the prospects and limits of a human rights-based approach to housing are discussed.
Keywords: ICESCR, right to housing, rights-based, PPR
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- Title Pages
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 The historical development of the concept of rights -
2 The United Nations and international oversight of human rights -
3 The Council of Europe, the European Convention on Human Rights and the Social Charter -
4 The European Union and human rights -
5 Human rights and the USA -
6 International Humanitarian Law: protecting rights and promoting welfare during war? -
7 The European Union, human rights and international development policy -
8 Socio-economic rights -
9 Cultural rights -
10 Migration and refugees: applying human rights to ‘everyone’? -
11 Conflict, ‘terrorism’ and non-state actors -
12 Gender and human rights -
13 Human rights-based approaches to social policy development -
14 The right to education -
15 The right to healthcare -
16 The right to housing -
17 Children’s rights and social policy -
18 The rights of people with disabilities -
19 The right to development -
20 Conclusion Human rights in a brave new world: the shape of things to come? - Index
