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(b) Recommends States, in view of the growing incidence of forced evictions
worldwide, to incorporate the Basic principles and guidelines on development-based
evictions and displacement65 into national laws and policies governing housing and land
issues, including resettlement policies, and encourages States to invite the Special
Rapporteur to observe their practical application at the country level;
(c) Recommends the Council to ensure wide dissemination of the Basic principles
and guidelines and inclusion of the issue of development and market-induced
displacements and evictions in the elaboration of mandates of relevant special procedures
of the Council, in particular on the rights of indigenous peoples, internally displaced
persons, violence against women, and the right to food;
(d) Strongly recommends the further elaboration of assessments of the impact of
evictions, on the basis of these principles and guidelines. Such assessments need to include
both material and non-material losses. Reference can be made in this task to the “loss
matrix” developed by the Special Rapporteur in collaboration with civil society.66
Discrimination
101. The Special Rapporteur reiterates the recommendations contained in his 2002
report,67 in particular to assist in the follow-up to recommendations and commitments
made at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and
Related Intolerance and urges that:
(a) Legislative measures that prohibit racial and other discrimination in all areas of
housing be enacted or strengthened;
(b) Policies, programmes, and budgetary and financial allocations promote equal
access to civic services essential to the realization of the right to adequate housing,
including potable water, electricity and sanitation, and that policies that result in
discriminatory access are reversed;
(c) Policies and laws are formulated to address multiple discrimination facing
minority, indigenous and low-income communities in their struggle to exercise their right
to adequate housing and land.
The human right to water and sanitation
102. In view of the importance of developing further analytical, investigative and
monitoring work on water and sanitation, the Special Rapporteur:
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Contained in A/HRC/4/18, annex I.
66
See the Housing and Land Rights Network toolkit at: http://toolkit.hlrn.org.
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E/CN.4/2002/59.
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