A/HRC/4/18 page 29 Annex III QUESTIONNAIRE ON WOMEN AND ADEQUATE HOUSING Questions on general legal and policy framework Q1. Please provide information on relevant national legislation with regard to housing and related services. Please also specify whether the right to adequate housing (RAH) is recognized in the Constitution or guaranteed in specific legislation. In addition, please specify whether women’s equality is recognized in the Constitution or guaranteed in specific legislation. Q2. Does the Constitution provide that the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on All Forms of Discrimination against Women or other international human rights treaties which guarantee the right to housing form a part of national law and have domestic applicability? Is there an effective judicial review process to ensure consistency of legislation with relevant provisions of the international human rights treaties, particularly those which specifically protect women’s right to adequate housing? Q3. How do laws, policies and practices, through existing institutions (both formal and customary and traditional norms and practices), budgets and programmes, ensure substantive gender equality in the various entitlements of the right to adequate housing, including land, access to finance, civic services and information and freedom from violence against women (VAW)? Q3.b. Do other laws (e.g. personal laws, family laws, domestic violence legislation, inheritance laws) ensure equal right to adequate housing for women? Q4. What is your assessment of the housing situation of women belonging to particularly vulnerable groups, such as female-headed households, indigenous and tribal women, women with HIV/AIDS, women with disability, rural women living on subsistent farming, women victims of forced evictions, women victims of violence including domestic violence, refugees, migrants, migrant workers, domestic workers, internally displaced women and women of different sexual orientation? Do they have access to justice and legal remedies? Please share case studies and testimonies where available. Q5. What are the historical, traditional, cultural, religious and other factors affecting the equal access of women to housing, land and related services? Q6. How have the policies and processes of globalization such as trade, finance, investment and debt affected women’s right to adequate housing and access to related services? How do these make women more vulnerable to VAW? Q7. How have women’s rights to adequate housing and access to related services been addressed in poverty reduction strategies and programmes in your country?