The United Nations system is an important tool in the promotion and protection of housing rights.
COHRE actively encourages the UN to adopt improved legal standards relating to housing rights and forced evictions and works with domestic organisations to ensure these global legal standards are creatively applied at the local level.
COHRE maintains extensive relations with a wide range of UN agencies and institutions. Through these relationships, COHRE is able to actively influence the policies and programmes of agencies including UN-Habitat, UNDP, UNHCR, OHCHR, WHO, FAO, OCHA and others.
In addition, COHRE works closely with many UN institutions, including the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies, the Human Rights Council, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing and other Special Procedures.
COHRE has particularly close relations with the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. COHRE regularly assists grassroots organisations and human rights defenders to access Committee sessions.
More generally, COHRE provides hands-on assistance to non-governmental and community-based organisations and others attending UN meetings in Geneva to guide them through the complicated UN human rights processes and bring them into direct contact with UN decision-makers.
Please see our section on Using the UN for more information on how COHRE can help you to make the most of the UN human rights system.
Some submissions to international review bodies follow below. Other international advocacy submissions can be found in the link on the left bar.
