International policy recommendations

Our recommendations to international bodies are grounded in human rights and are designed to provide insight into critical housing issues in Canada and the responsibilities of all governments to realize the right to housing.
Here are our most recent submissions to international bodies:
- Submission to the 89th Session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): Equality, the human right to housing and women and gender-diverse persons in Canada
Joint submission with Canadian Centre for Housing Rights, National Indigenous Women’s Housing Network, National right to Housing Network, and Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network.
September 2024 - Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing: A Place to Live in Dignity. Make Housing Affordable for All.
April 30, 2023 - Submission to Canada’s Fourth Universal Periodic Review
Joint submission by the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights and the National Right to Housing Network
April 2023- Summary of stakeholders’ submissions on Canada – Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- UN Independent Expert on the Enjoyment of all Human Rights by Older Persons: Older persons living in long-term care homes and the right to adequate housing in Canada
April 1, 2022 - UN Commission on the Status of Women: Setbacks in Realizing Women’s Right to Housing in Canada
July 31, 2021 - UN Human Rights Committee: “The Rights to Life, Protection of the Home & Non-discrimination in Canada”
May 21, 2021 - UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing: “Discrimination & Spatial Segregation in Canada”
May 14, 2021 - Commission for Social Development
- Special Rapporteur’s Final Thematic Report to the Human Rights Council
September 30, 2019 - Human Rights Council on the Occasion of the Second Universal Periodic Review of Canada
October 9, 2012 - Parliamentary Sub-Committee on International Human Rights
April 1, 2010 - Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
2008 - Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
2006 - Human Rights Committee
2005 - Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
2005 - Human Rights Committee
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