A/HRC/4/18 page 12 (e) Recognize the right to land as a human right and strengthen its protection in international human rights law. Given the magnitude of homelessness and landlessness across the world such recognition would promote the right to adequate housing, including protection against forced evictions; (f) Urge States to give priority to agrarian reform, and to land and wealth redistribution. Legislation should be enacted and implemented to check forced evictions and segregation, growth of the land mafia and cartels, and uncontrolled property speculation; (g) Consider holding an expert seminar to develop strategies for the legal recognition of land as a human right, including the protection of land rights of indigenous peoples, peasants, the landless and other groups that are dependent on and derive their identity and livelihood from land and land-based resources; (h) Consider, in its review of the mandate on adequate housing, to make more explicit, consistent with the work of United Nations treaty bodies and the Special Rapporteur, the recognition of adequate housing as a distinct human right.

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