Reading Guide

This section details some of the key literature on HLP rights.

REPORTS

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), 2000, Sources 4 “Legal Resources for Housing Rights: International and National Standards”, Geneva.

UN-HABITAT, 1999, Women’s rights to land, housing, and property in post-conflict situations and during reconstruction: A global overview (Land management series), United Nations Centre for Human Settlements.

United Nations Housing Rights Programme, 2002, Housing Rights Legislation: Review of International and National Legal Instruments, Report No. 1, Nairobi.

United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2007, Policy Makers Guide to Women’s Land, Property, and Housing Rights Across the World, United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

United Nations Inter-Agency (FAO, IDMC, OCHA, OHCHR, UN-HABITAT & UNHCR), 2007, Handbook on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons: IImplementing the ‘Pinheiro Principles’.

BOOKS

Hulchanski, J. David & Leckie, Scott, 2000, The Human Right to Adequate Housing 1945 to 1999: Chronology of United Nations Activity, Centre on Housing Rights & Evictions.

Leckie, Scott, 1992, From Housing Needs to Housing Rights: an Analysis of the Right to Adequate Housing under International Human Rights Law (Human settlements programme), International Institute for Environment and Development.

Leckie, Scott, 1994, Towards an international convention on housing rights: Options at Habitat II (Issue papers on world conferences), American Society of International Law.

Leckie, Scott, 1994, Destruction by design: Housing rights violations in Tibet, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions.

Leckie, Scott, 1995, When Push Comes to Shove: Forced Evictions and Human Rights, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions.

Leckie, Scott, 2000, Legal Resources for Housing Rights, Centre on Housing Rights & Evictions.

Leckie, Scott (ed), 2003, National Perspectives on Housing Rights (International Studies in Human Rights), Kluwer Law International Publishers, The Hague.

Leckie, Scott, 2003, Returning Home: Housing and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons, Hotei Publishing.

Leckie, Scott & Gallagher, Anne (eds), 2006, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Legal Resource Guide, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Leckie, Scott, 2007, Housing and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons: Laws, Cases, and Materials, Cambridge University Press.

Leckie, Scott (ed), 2008, Housing, Land and Property Rights and UN Peace Operations – A Comparative Survey and Proposals for Reform, Cambridge University Press.

Leckie, Scott, 2008, Housing, Land, and Property Rights in Post-Conflict United Nations and Other Peace Operations: A Comparative Survey and Proposal for Reform, Cambridge University Press.