Litigation
The right to adequate housing, including prohibition on forced eviction, has increasingly been the subject of judicial and quasi-judicial review at the international, regional and national levels. As a result, there exists an emerging body of housing rights jurisprudence that demonstrates that housing rights are indeed legally enforceable human rights.
To better achieve our mission and ensure that victims of housing rights violations can hold perpetrators accountable for such violations, COHRE uses litigation and legal advocacy at all of these levels to:
• Legally enforce economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to adequate housing and the right to water and sanitation.
• Achieve remedies for victims of violations of economic, social and cultural rights.
• Empower and support grassroots communities to claim and enforce their economic, social and cultural rights.
• Build the capacity of judges, lawyers and other advocates to understand how to legally enforce economic, social and cultural rights.
• Build a progressive jurisprudence demonstrating the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights.
For more information, please contact Bret Thiele, COHRE’s Senior Expert on Litigation & Legal Advocacy, at litigation@cohre.org.
Related Documents
Excerpts from and citations to scores of judicial decisions dealing with economic, social and cultural rights. As such, it provides practitioners, academics and other human rights advocates with information on the latest development of the law of economic, social and cultural rights.
April 23 2009
A user-friendly and comprehensive reference guide for lawyers and advocates wanting to plead economic, social and cultural rights before courts and other adjudicatory bodies.
December 01 2006
Features 21 case studies and shows many examples of where legal action has made a difference and progressed the realisation of rights. It also reveals the many practical and theoretical obstacles that have been encountered in social action litigation.
January 01 2003
This report reveals how widespread the recognition of housing rights is throughout international, regional and national legislation. It is designed both as a reference document on housing rights law and as a comprehensive statement on the global status of housing rights.
January 01 2000
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