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Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation

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Social Development

Publications: Leilani Farha and Celeste Mckay, Policy Guide on Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Adequate Housing, UN-HABITAT, (Forthcoming, 2009). Leilani Farha, Indigenous Peoples’ Housing Rights: A Global Perspective, Principal Author, (United Nations Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights and United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT), (2005).

Advancement of Women

Affiliation with other organizations: Member of ESCR-Net and its women's working group; and Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action;
Publications: Leilani Farha, Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, written and presented at the International Strategy Meeting, ESCR-Net, Nairobi Kenya (December 2008). Women of the Railway: Women and Forced Evictions in the Philippines, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, Leilani Farha principle author (Forthcoming, 2009). Leilani Farha, “Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women: Women Claiming Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – the CEDAW Potential”, in Socio-Economic Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in Comparative and International Law, Cambridge University Press, (2009). Equality for Women: A Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, co-authored with Pearl Eliadis, and Sneh Aurora, EQUITAS, (2008). The Montréal Principles: Needed Clarity on Women’s Right to Equal Enjoyment of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Leilani Farha, Shelagh Day and Marianne Mollmann, Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 22:3 (2004). The Montréal Principles on the Meaning and Application of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for Women, Human Rights Quarterly, August, 2004. Leilani Farha with Shelagh Day, Marianne Mollmann, et al., Leilani Farha, “Is There a Woman in the House? Re-Conceptualizing the Right to Adequate Housing” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 14, No.1, 2002. Leilani Farha, Women’s Rights to Land, Property and Housing During Situations of Armed Conflict: A Global Overview, (United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), April 2000). Leilani Farha, “Contextualizing Violence Against Women: Forced Evictions in Situations of Armed Conflict” in Canadian Woman Studies Vol. 19, No. 4, Winter 2000. Leilani Farha, “Women and Housing” in Women and International Human Rights Law, Vol.1, edts, Askin, K. and Koenig, D., (Transnational Publishers, 1999). “Violence Against Women in War and Armed Conflict Situations: The Case of Forced Eviction” in Common Grounds, (Asian Center for Women’s Human Rights, 1998).
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