A/HRC/RES/43/14 (f) To consider adopting national programmes and legislation compliant with human rights law and due process and with respect for human dignity and proportionality, to prevent, avoid and reduce evictions, and to promote affordable housing for all; (g) To implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including target 11.1, and in this context urges States to adopt, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, including civil society, national human rights institutions and the private sector, inclusive and cross-sectoral strategies that respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of all, and to ensure that these strategies outline clear responsibilities at all levels of government, contain measurable goals, targets and timelines, and include appropriate mechanisms for regular monitoring and review, with particular emphasis on the needs of persons who are marginalized and most vulnerable; (h) To ensure equality and non-discrimination when fulfilling the right to adequate housing, and to strive towards the full realization of the right to adequate housing for all; (i) To ensure women’s equal right to adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living in all aspects of housing strategies, including through equal access to credit, mortgages, home ownership and rental housing, to take the safety of such housing properly into account, especially when women and children face any form of violence or threat of violence, and to undertake legislative and other reforms to realize equal rights for all with respect to property and inheritance; (j) To take all measures necessary to eliminate legislation that criminalizes homelessness, and to take positive measures with a view to prevent and eliminate homelessness by adopting and implementing laws, administrative orders, cross-sectional strategies and programmes at all levels that are, among others, gender-, age- and disabilityresponsive and based on international human rights law; (k) To ensure that construction companies work in accordance with building regulations and in compliance with safety standards; 2. Also calls upon States to provide, in an accessible, affordable, timely and effective manner, an effective remedy and equal access to justice and administrative procedures in complementing judicial recourses for all for violations and abuses of the right to adequate housing by considering: (a) Adopting domestic legislation and administrative orders giving full effect to the right to adequate housing and redress for violations of that right; (b) Making provisions for legal support and legal aid; (c) Promoting the establishment of national human rights institutions, equality bodies, ombudspersons and civil society organizations supporting the interests of affected persons in accordance with their respective procedural law; (d) Ratifying the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, if not yet ratified; 3. Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living and the right to non-discrimination in this context, including the undertaking of country visits, and takes note of her reports, including her most recent report containing guidelines for the implementation of the right to adequate housing;2 4. Decides to extend, for a period of three years, the mandate of the 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, as set out by the Human Rights Council in previous resolutions, in particular Council resolution 15/8 of 30 September 2010; 5. Requests the Special Rapporteur, in fulfilling the mandate, to continue to engage with States in the implementation of the right to adequate housing, the New Urban Agenda and housing-related Sustainable Development Goals and targets, and to consult with 2 A/HRC/43/43. 3