Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Cross-Cutting Observations
- Part II Public Good Rights
- The Right to Water
- Rights to Housing and to Land
- 6 The Human Right to Adequate Housing and the New Human Right to Land
- 7 The Human Right to Land
- The Right to Health
- The Right to a Clean Environment and Rights of the Environment
- Part III Status Rights
- Part IV New Technology Rights
- Part V Autonomy and Integrity Rights
- Part VI Governance Rights
- Index
6 - The Human Right to Adequate Housing and the New Human Right to Land
Congruent Entitlements
from Rights to Housing and to Land
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2020
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Cross-Cutting Observations
- Part II Public Good Rights
- The Right to Water
- Rights to Housing and to Land
- 6 The Human Right to Adequate Housing and the New Human Right to Land
- 7 The Human Right to Land
- The Right to Health
- The Right to a Clean Environment and Rights of the Environment
- Part III Status Rights
- Part IV New Technology Rights
- Part V Autonomy and Integrity Rights
- Part VI Governance Rights
- Index
Summary
The starting postulate of this chapter is that the articulation of the right to adequate housing and the right to food at the United Nations since 1995 is one of the factors that has led to greater acceptance of the right to land – a human right that is not found in any of the ‘hard law’ international human rights instruments. As explained below, subsequent to the work on housing and food, particularly since 2010, the right to land figures increasingly in soft law instruments emerging from the United Nations (UN) human rights system.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human RightsRecognition, Novelty, Rhetoric, pp. 81 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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