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(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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