Berhanu Mosissa Wakjira

A Comparative Analyses of the Human Rights to Adequate Housing: International and Regional Perespectives Berhanu Mosissa Wakjira

The human right to Adequate Housing is an evolving and at the same time controversial issue in global and regional human rights systems. This book will focus on assessing the key aspects of the human right to adequate housing under universal human rights system in comparison with major regional human rights systems. For the purpose of this book the key aspects of the human right to adequate housing include: normative contents; duties of States; the constituents of violations; remedies upon the materialization of violations; monitoring the implementation of the housing rights and the jurisprudential development on the human right to adequate housing. The book argues that there are great disparities in formulating the key aspects of the human right to adequate housing among the universal human rights system and the three main regional human rights systems. The book concludes that the African human rights system does not properly set the key aspects of the human right to adequate housing even though it adopted the three in one approach, when compared to both international human rights law and the two major regional human rights system which do not adopt the same approach.