Bruce Porter, S. Leckie, N. Mandela, Philip Alston
{"title":"The Right to Adequate Housing in Canada","authors":"Bruce Porter, S. Leckie, N. Mandela, Philip Alston","doi":"10.1163/9789004482128_011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004482128_011","url":null,"abstract":"At the international level, Canada has long been an advocate for social and economic rights and for the right to adequate housing. Canada ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in 1976. Unfortunately, the image projected by Canada internationally is increasingly at odds with domestic policy and legislation. There is no evidence of any commitment on the part of the federal government or provincial governments in Canada to give effect to the right to adequate housing. Nor is there any explicit recognition of the right to adequate housing anywhere in Canadian law. The policy direction in recent years in Canada has been toward the withdrawal of commitments to ensure access to adequate housing and meaningful security of tenure.","PeriodicalId":442997,"journal":{"name":"National Perspectives on Housing Rights","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116789774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Housing Rights in Honduras: Plenty of Rights, No Housing","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004482128_013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004482128_013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":442997,"journal":{"name":"National Perspectives on Housing Rights","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128936530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Justiciability of the Right to Housing – The South African Experience","authors":"G. Budlender","doi":"10.1163/9789004482128_015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004482128_015","url":null,"abstract":"The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has adopted the analysis of a number of commentators, that human rights create three forms of state obligation: ‘The right to health, like all human rights, imposes three types or levels of obligations on States parties: the obligations to respect, protect and fulfil’ the right. Some commentators add a further element, namely the obligation to ‘promote’ the right.","PeriodicalId":442997,"journal":{"name":"National Perspectives on Housing Rights","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114966272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where It Matters Most: Making International Housing Rights Meaningful at the National Level","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004482128_007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004482128_007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":442997,"journal":{"name":"National Perspectives on Housing Rights","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127789678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Case for a Right to Housing in the United States","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004482128_012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004482128_012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":442997,"journal":{"name":"National Perspectives on Housing Rights","volume":"100 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120851079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protection of the Right to Housing in Finland","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004482128_017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004482128_017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":442997,"journal":{"name":"National Perspectives on Housing Rights","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127554779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Housing Rights in Brazil","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004482128_014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004482128_014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":442997,"journal":{"name":"National Perspectives on Housing Rights","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121517981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Right to Adequate Housing in the Philippines","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004482128_009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004482128_009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":442997,"journal":{"name":"National Perspectives on Housing Rights","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122479904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Housing Rights in Ireland","authors":"Padraic Kenna","doi":"10.1163/9789004482128_019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004482128_019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":442997,"journal":{"name":"National Perspectives on Housing Rights","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121611444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}