Appendix 2: Key international
standards on the right to a
decent home
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
• Article 25.1
International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights (1966)
• Article 11.1
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination (1965)
• Article 5 (e) (iii)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women (1979)
• Article 14.2 (h)
Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
• Article 16.1
• Article 27.3
Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (2008)
• Article 2
• Article 5.3
• Article 9.1 (a)
• Article 19 (a)
• Article 22.1
• Article 28.1, 28.2 (d)
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples (2007)
• Articles 10
• Article 21.1
• Article 23
• Article 26
• Article 27
• Article 28
• Article 32
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