29 January-11 March 2014 (E06714) | Canceled
Instructor: Bret Thiele
This e-learning course introduces participants to the international human rights framework as it relates to housing and related rights. The focus will be on the right to adequate housing as guaranteed by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as well as housing rights in other international human rights instruments and how those rights have been applied at the international and national levels.
Participants will deepen their knowledge about housing as a human right, including the content of the right to adequate housing, housing rights within the context of indivisibility of human rights, strategies and mechanisms to enforce housing rights as human rights, and the emerging comparative jurisprudence demonstrating the justiciability of the right to adequate housing including the prohibition on forced evictions, and negative and positive legal obligations related to housing.