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Call for Input: Housing Discrimination and Spatial Segregation

Deadline 14 May 2021 (new deadline)Issued by The Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing Purpose To inform his reports to be presented to the General Assembly in 2021 and

the Human Rights Council in 2022

Background and Objectives

The next thematic reports of the Special Rapporteur, Mr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, will focus on the issue of racial, religious, caste, gender and other discrimination in relation to the right to adequate housing, including spatial inequalities and segregation in urban or rural-urban environments.

The main objective of the two interlinked reports will be to identify

contemporary and historical forms of discrimination and segregation that affect the right to adequate housing, to highlight good practices in the prevention of housing discrimination and segregation and to provide guidance to States on how they can fulfil their human rights obligations in this respect.

Key questions and types of input sought

To inform his reports the Special Rapporteur welcomes contributions from States, local and regional governments, national human rights institutions, civil society organizations, academics, UN agencies and other stakeholders on the following issues:

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Studies and information concerning barriers to the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing experienced by individuals and groups due to discrimination by public or private actors;

Information concerning patterns and practices of segregation including spatial segregation in urban, rural and peri-urban-rural contexts and the impacts of spatial inequality and segregation on affected communities;

Factors, policies, laws and regulations contributing to spatial segregation or housing discrimination;

Impact of spatial segregation in accessing in a non-discriminatory manner the right to adequate housing, public services, including electricity and access to digital services, ensuring security of tenure, and other rights, such as the rights to water, sanitation, education, health, work, the right to a safe and clean environment, and the right to equal protection of the security of the person;

Tensions between the protection of cultural and minority rights, the rights of Indigenous Peoples, the freedom of choice of residence and the prohibition of discrimination under international human rights law. Suggestions how such tensions can or have been solved in compliance with international human rights law.

Policies, laws and measures aimed at preventing discrimination and spatial segregation in relation to the right to adequate housing. Positive measures that have resulted in a reduction of spatial segregation and housing discrimination.

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Consultations

Consultation with Local and Regional Governments14 May 2021 at 15:00 CESTRegistration

Access to Justice for Housing Discrimination and Spatial SegregationConsultation with judges, lawyers, human rights institutions and non-discrimination bodies7 May 2021 at 15:00 CESTRegistration

Consultation with States, relevant ministries and public institutions

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30 April 2021 at 15:00 CET. Representatives can register with Mr. Pascal Garde, pgarde@ohchr.org, indicating their function and the public institution they represent.

Consultation with Civil Society Organizations12 April 2021 at 15:00 CET. More information…

How and where to submit inputs/commentsDue to limited capacity for translation, we kindly request to submit responses, if possible, in English (preferred), Spanish or French. Responses should be sent to registry@ohchr.org.

In order to ensure accessibility of information submitted for persons with visual impairments, submissions are preferred in Word format, not in PDF.

Additional reports or documentation can be submitted to the Special Rapporteur by writing to srhousing@ohchr.org

E-mail address registry@ohchr.org ; srhousing@ohchr.org;E-mail subject line Report on discrimination, segregation and the right to

adequate housing Postal address (optional)

Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housingOffice of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva, CH 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland

Preferred file format WordAccepted languages English, French, and Spanish

Treatment of inputs/comments receivedAll submissions received will be published on OHCHR websites, except where confidentiality is explicitly requested.

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Inputs receivedStates

Argentina Bahrain ; Bahrain 2; Bahrain (Arabic); Bahrain 2 (Arabic) Brazil Cambodia Chile Denmark Ecuador Finland Germany Egypt El Salvador Honduras Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iraq Ireland Italy Mexico Morocco 1 - 2 Singapore Slovakia Syria

Local and regional Governments Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires / Argentina Catalonia, Department of Territory and Sustainability, INCASOL (Catalan Land Institute) / Spain

Izmir / Turkey

National Human Rights Institutions and Ombudspersons Ararteko, Ombudsman for the Basque Country / Spain Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos de México (CNDH) Defenseur des droits / France Defensor del Pueblo de la Nación / Argentina European Network of Equality Bodies (Equinet) Office of the Austrian Disability Ombudsman Ombudsman Bosnia Herzegovina Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos / Nicaragua The Committee of Experts for Remediating Homelessness at the Polish Commissioner for

Human Rights The Danish Institute for Human Rights

Civil Society Organizations Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial Brussels (document 1, document 2, document 3) Association of Reintegration of Crimea

ATD Quart Monde France Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico

o Second Report: Towards a just Recovery, September 2020

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BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights o Forced Population Transfer: The Case of Palestine, Discriminatory Zoning and Planning,

December 2014o Forced Population Transfer: The Case of Palestine, Denial of Access to Natural Resources

and Services, September 2017o Forced Population Transfer: The Case of Palestine, Land Confiscation and Denial of Use,

October 2017o Forced Population Transfer: The Case of Palestine, Denial of Reparations, October 2018

Caritas / Spain Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation, Social Rights Advocacy Centre, National Right to

Housing Network / Canada

Civil Society Committee with Migrants in Korea - Migrants Trade Union Ciudad Común / Chile

Comité Español de Representantes de Personas con Discapacidad (CERMI) / Spain Consortium for Street Children / Save Street Children Uganda

European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA) European Roma Rights Centre Global Network of Sex Work Projects Habitants de Logements Éphémères ou Mobiles / France Habitat for Humanity International

o Habitat for Humanity International Argentina o Habitat for Humanity International Bangladesh o Habitat for Humanity International Cambodia o Habitat for Humanity International El Salvador o Habitat for Humanity International India o Habitat for Humanity International Paraguay o Habitat for Humanity International Poland o Habitat for Humanity International Vietnam o Habitat for Humanity International Zambia

Habitat International Coalition (HIC)

Housing and Land Rights Network – Habitat International Coalition o Israel / Palestineo Middle East and North African Region

Inquilinos Agrupados de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires / Argentina International Alliance for Peace and Development International Campaign for Tibet

Kazakhstan Parliamentary Development Fund Kushian Society for Development and Human Rights / Sudan

Land Research Centre / Jerusalem / Palestine

Legal Group Against The Ghetto Laws in Denmark (LGALDK) Legal Resources Centre (document 1, document 2) / South Africa Lisbon Tenants Association / Portugal National Youth Council of Moldova (document 1 and document 2) Ndifuna Ukwazi / Cape Town / South Africa Norwegian Refugee Council

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Observatoire pour les Droits des Citoyens Itinérants (ODCI) (document 1 and document 2) / France

Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) / Belfast / United Kingdom Platform for on International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) Provivienda / Spain

o Se alquila? Racismo y xenophobia en el mercado del alquiler, Madrid 2020o Una casa como refugio, Madrid 2019o Una casa como refugio 2, Madrid 2021

Public Works Studio / Lebanon Recht op die stad / Right to the City, Rotterdam / Netherlands

Roma Public Association "POROJAN" / Moldova SAJE-Strategic Actions for a Just Economy / United States of America Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) Single Mothers Association of Kenya (SMAK)

Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) SOS Racisme Catalunya / Spain Stella / Montreal / Canada The Architecture Lobby (TAL), Racial Justice Campaign / United States of America West Heidelberg Community Legal / Australia

Women's Legal Centre (WLC), Cape Town / South Africa

Xumek - Asociación Civil para la Promoción y Protección de Derechos Huamnos / Argentina Zero Eviction Campaign in Brazil

Academia and Lawyers

Castan Centre for Human Rights Law / Inner Melbourne Community Legal, Monash University, Melbourne / Australia

Denedo, Mercy and Ejiogu, Amanze - University of Durham and University of Leicester

Graziani, Terra et al., Who Profits from the Crisis? Housing Grabs in Times of Recovery, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, October 2020, Los Angeles / United States of America

Grover, Vrinda, Advocate, Supreme Court of India Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Ong, Paul M., Systemic Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Renter Crisis, UCLA Luskin

Institute on Inequality and Democracy, August 2020, Los Angeles / United States of America

Rodriguez, Andrea et al., University of Dundee / A Way Home, Scotland Roy, Ananya et al., Unhousing the Poor: Interlocking Regimes of Racialized Policing, UCLA

Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, August 2020, Los Angeles / United States of America

Sanchez, Juan Carlos Benito, Securing Housing for All in Diverse European Societies: Applying International and European Antidiscrimination Law to the Housing Context, PhD Thesis (2020), UCLouvain, Belgium

United Nations Entities UN-Habitat Palestine UN-Habitat Bolivia

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