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Grassroots Women Empowerment Centre in Manila, Philippines

Woman and daughter in the Copperbelt region of Zambia |
Women and Housing Rights
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COHRE established its Women and Housing Rights Initiative (WHRI) in 1998 to expose the universal denial of women’s right to housing and to begin to ameliorate the situation for women. Grounding its work in principles and norms established under international human rights law, the WHRI now seeks to develop its scope to more effectively address and champion the right to adequate housing for women through a participatory and holistic programme of activities.
The WHRI believes strongly that one does not empower women by working for them; one should work with them, for women are clearly the best champions for their own rights. Since its inception over a decade ago, the WHRIhas successfully worked with its global partners -- engaging at national, regional and internationals levels -- to ensure that international standards human rights standards protect women’s human rights. It has carried out innovative research and released creative publications that have been influential in both policy and legal circles. It has also successfully worked with grassroots women throughout the world to highlight women’s housing situations and has carried out dozens of trainings throughout the world promoting women’s housing rights.
The WHRI understands that the denial of women’s housing rights is a core element of women’s continued subordination and cycles of poverty, and that women's equality cannot be achieved if women continue to experience housing insecurity. Working towards women’s realisation of the right to housing is absolutely essential to women’s attainment of a higher standard of living within communities throughout the world, and to ending the universal legacy of gender inequality and discrimination against women.
To see some of COHRE's reports on women and housing rights, please visit our Library.
For more information about the WHRI, please contact:
COHRE Women’s Housing Rights Initiative
Mayra Gomez, Senior Expert
Email: women@cohre.org
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| COHRE Statement on International Women's Day 2010 |
Forced evictions throw millions of women into poverty and isolation.
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| COHRE Statement on International Women's Day 2009 |
Women around the world bear the brunt of the global economic and housing crisis.
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| COHRE Statement on International Women's Day 2008 |
Governments must take active steps to protect the rights of women to housing and land, and integrate these protections into their strategies to ameliorate the negative effects of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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| COHRE Statement on International Women's Day 2007 |
Women left out in the cold on land and housing rights.
Women produce up to 80 percent of Africa’s food. Yet, in no country in Africa do women own more than 3 percent of the housing and land. Worldwide, the statistics are similarly disturbing.
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| Fact Sheets on Women and Housing Rights |
WHRP Fact Sheet One: Basic Standards and Principles
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WHRP Fact Sheet Two: The Housing Rights of Girls
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WHRP Fact Sheet Three: Women and Forced Evictions
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WHRP Fact Sheet Four: Custom, Tradition and Women's Housing Rights
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WHRP Fact Sheet Five: The Housing Rights of Displaced Women
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WHRP Fact Sheet Six: Women's Rights to Water and Sanitation
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WHRP Fact Sheet Seven: Women, Slums and Urbanisation
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WHRP Fact Sheet Eight: Strategies to Enforce Women's Housing Rights
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WHRP Fact Sheet Nine: Women's Housing Rights and Domestic Violence
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WHRP Fact Sheet Ten: Women's Housing Rights in the Context of HIV and AIDS
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| Issue Briefs on Women and Housing Rights |
Issue Brief 1: Women and Forced Evictions
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Issue Brief 2: Women and Housing Rights in Africa
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Issue Brief 3: Women and Housing Rights in the Americas
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Issue Brief 4: Women and Housing Rights in Asia
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Issue Brief 5: Women, Slums and Urbanisation
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Issue Brief 6: Women and Housing Rights: Basic Human Rights Standards
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Issue Brief 7: Women’s Rights to Inheritance and Joint Control of Housing,
Land and Property
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Issue Brief 8: Women’s Housing Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS
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Issue Brief 9: Women’s Housing Rights and Gender-Based Violence
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Issue Brief 10: The Housing Rights of Girls
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