A/HRC/4/18 page 11 30. The indicators on the right to adequate housing (annex II) include references to land. The questionnaire on women and housing (annex III) demonstrates that land is an important entitlement for realizing the full scope of women’s right to housing. It is also clear that in identifying the importance of protecting the right to adequate housing throughout the process of evictions, the Basic principles and guidelines (annex I) comprise numerous aspects of the right to land. 31. The Special Rapporteur strongly believes that the Human Rights Council should consider devoting attention to the question of the human right to land and should conduct studies in this regard which build on the work of organized peasant and indigenous peoples’ movements. The Council is ideally placed to ensure the recognition in international human rights law of land as a human right. Land as a cross-cutting issue could also be the subject of a joint analysis by concerned mandate holders, including on the rights of indigenous peoples, violence against women, food and housing. IV. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 32. In pursuance of the constructive manner in which the Special Rapporteur has attempted to carry out his mandate, this report provides standards and tools that could be utilized and further developed by States and other parties to promote the defence and realization of the human right to adequate housing. In this context, he would like to make the following recommendations to the Human Rights Council, which should be read alongside the recommendations contained in his last two reports to the Commission on Human Rights.11 33. In particular, the Special Rapporteur requests the Council to: (a) Urge Governments to test and adapt the indicators presented on adequate housing (annex II), to establish national benchmarks consistent with their human rights obligation, and to participate actively in piloting and validation of these indicators with OHCHR; (b) Revisit the recommendations contained in document E/CN.4/2006/118, with a view to institutionalizing women’s human rights to housing, land, property and inheritance within the work of the Council and relevant special procedures; (c) Ensure wide dissemination of the Basic principles and guidelines on development-based evictions and displacement (annex I) and inclusion of the issue of development and market-induced evictions in the elaboration of mandates of relevant special procedures of the Council, in particular on the rights of indigenous peoples, food, violence against women and adequate housing; (d) Urge States to incorporate these guidelines into national laws and policies governing housing and land issues, including resettlement policies; 11 E/CN.4/2006/41 and E/CN.4/2006/118.