A/HRC/RES/43/14
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 July 2020
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-third session
24 February–13 March and 15–23 June 2020
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 19 June 2020
43/14.
Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate
standard of living, and the right to non-discrimination in this context
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming that international human rights law instruments, including the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, entail obligations and
commitments of States parties, including all levels of government, in relation to access to
adequate housing,
Reaffirming also that everyone is entitled to the right to adequate housing as a
component of the right to an adequate standard of living without discrimination of any kind
as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin,
property, birth or other status,
Recalling that States have the primary responsibility to ensure the full realization of
all human rights and to endeavour to take steps, individually and through international
assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of their
available resources, with a view to progressively achieving the full realization of the right to
adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living by all
appropriate means, including the adoption of legislative measures,
Recalling also all previous resolutions adopted by the Human Rights Council and the
Commission on Human Rights on the issue of the right to adequate housing as a component
of the right to an adequate standard of living,
Recalling further all previous resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human
Rights on the issue of women’s equal rights to ownership of, access to and control over land
and the equal rights to own and inherit property and to adequate housing, including resolution
2005/25 of 15 April 2005,
Recalling its resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the Human Rights Council,
and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the Council, of
18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge her or his duties in
accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
GE.20-08981(E)
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