A/HRC/22/24 40. The report strongly recommends that Governments institute comprehensive sexual education programmes from primary school onwards and train and support teachers accordingly (para. 87 (b)–(e)). D. Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context 41. The Special Rapporteur on adequate housing submitted a report (A/HRC/19/53) in 2011 that focuses on the question of women and their right to adequate housing, looking at progress to date and further efforts needed to ensure that women everywhere are able to enjoy this right in practice. Specifically, the report focuses on recent legal and policy advancements in the area of women’s right to adequate housing, including issues related to inheritance, land and property, as well as strategies for overcoming persistent gaps in implementation of those laws and policies. The report also presents a gender-sensitive analysis of the right to adequate housing and concludes with specific recommendations to States and United Nations agencies and human rights mechanisms to improve the enjoyment of this right for women worldwide. 42. In particular, the Special Rapporteur notes that (para. 3): Adequate housing for women goes far beyond addressing basic material needs. Because of the close connection that exists between the right to adequate housing and the right to equality, adequate housing for women goes to the heart of social inequality and discrimination. When a woman is unable to access adequate housing and land mainly because she is a woman, she is not only affected in terms of her immediate material needs, she is also relegated to a subordinate and dependent position within society because of her gender. Ensuring that women have access to and control over vital resources such as housing and land is essential to challenging and changing gender power structures and patterns of gender inequality which continue to oppress, exclude and relegate women to the margins. 43. The Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-Based Evictions and Displacement,9 developed by the former Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Miloon Kothari, address the human rights implications of development-linked evictions and related displacement in urban and rural areas. The guidelines include specific references to women’s human rights and gender equality requirements. States are encouraged to “adopt and implement special measures to protect women from forced evictions”10, as well as to take into account the differential impacts of forced evictions on women when conducting impact assessments. E. Independent Expert on minority issues 44. The 2012 report of the Independent Expert on minority issues (A/HRC/19/56) contains an update on the work of the Forum on Minority Issues following the fourth session of the Forum in November 2011, which focused on “Guaranteeing the rights of minority women and girls”, including economic, social and cultural rights (paras. 65–81). 9 10 12 Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, A/HRC/4/18, annex I. Ibid., para. 26.