Leilani Farha

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Leilani Farha (2017)

Leilani Farha served as the UN special rapporteur on the human right to adequate housing from 2014 to April 2020 .

Farha is a lawyer, a graduate of the University of Toronto and was the executive director of the NGO Canada Without Poverty.

During her tenure as Special Rapporteur, she has focused on social inequality and the lack of effective political representation of the poor as a cause of homelessness or inadequate housing. Farha advocates the right to decent housing for socially marginalized groups and has worked in Canada to implement United Nations resolutions that view homelessness as a violation of human rights . As Special Rapporteur, she has participated in missions around the world to examine the state of the right to housing and develop strategies to implement these rights. According to her observations, the exit restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic severely impaired the social, economic and cultural rights of broad sections of the population.

Her work as a special rapporteur on the right to housing is presented in detail in the 2019 documentary " PUSH - For the basic right to live " by the Swedish documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten . Farha supports the European Citizens' Initiative “ Housing For All ” and has launched a civil society movement called The Shift for the worldwide exchange of experiences regarding the right to housing.

“... the right to housing means the right to live in peace, security and dignity. The homeless have neither a toilet nor a shower. Life expectancy is only half as high as if people had a place to stay. In this respect, homelessness harms a person's security, human dignity and also peace. "-" Housing must be affordable - on the basis of household income, not with regard to what the market has to offer. "

- Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing :

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  1. ↑ Canada Without Poverty | Poverty is a violation of human rights. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Leilani Farha: How can billions of people 'stay home' to beat Covid-19 without a safe place to live? | Leilani Farha . In: The Guardian . April 29, 2020, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed May 6, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Film of the week: "Push" - The human right to housing. Retrieved on May 6, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ European citizens' initiative "Housing for All". Retrieved on May 6, 2020 (German).
  5. ^ The Shift. Housing as a Human Right Not a Commodity. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Interview - We created unequal societies. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Farha, Leilani
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century