PART II, SECTION 5– UNDERSTANDING
SPECIFIC ESC RIGHTS
USING MODULE 13 IN A TRAINING PROGRAM
The Right to Adequate Housing
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This module should help trainees understand/clarify for themselves:
- the scope of international, regional and national standards guaranteeing the right to housing and a state’s obligations arising from these standards;
- elaboration of guarantees provided under article 11 of the ICESCR as contained in General Comments 4 and 7 of the CESCR; and
- strategies for ensuring the enjoyment of the right to housing.
Suggested Methods
¨ Discussion of a case study of a forced eviction: A facilitator should prepare for discussion by the participants a case study based on a real case of eviction. Working in small groups, the participants should discuss the case study and prepare a report on how forced eviction undermines the right to housing.
After each group presents its report, the facilitator should make a presentation based on the module. This method begins with the issue of forced eviction, which leads to the general question of the right to housing.
