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SCC 123. For a further survey of the Indian jurisprudence see Muralidhar, S., ‘Justiciability
of ESC Rights – the Indian Experience’ in Circle of Rights, 2000, pp. 435-444.
12
See General Comment No.4, The Right to Adequate Housing UN doc. E/1992/23, 1991,
13
See CESCR Committee General Comment No.4, op. cit., paras 10 and 13.
and General Comment No.7, Forced Evictions UN doc. E/1998/22, annex IV, 1997.
14
See Rosas, A., ‘The right to development’, in A. Eide et al., Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights: A Textbook, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 2000, pp. 119–30; see also, Salomon,
M.E. and Sengupta, A., The Right to Development: Obligations of States and the Rights of
Minorities and Indigenous Peoples, London, Minority Rights Group International, 2003.
15
CESCR Committee General Comment No.4, op. cit., para 7
16
See HRC General Comment No.23, The Rights of Minorities, para. 7, UN doc.
17
See Concluding Comments on Sweden, UN doc. CCPR/C/79/Add.58, 1995; Brazil UN
18
See for example Lansman v. Finland (511/92) and (671/95).
19
See CERD General Recommendation No.XXIII on The Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.5, 1994.
doc. CCPR/C/79/Add.66, 1996; and Mexico UN doc. CCPR/C/79/Add.32, 1994.
para. 5. and the Concluding Observations on Suriname, UN doc. CERD/C/64/CO/9 paras
11–15, 22, 2004, concerning the lack of legal recognition of indigenous people’s land
rights.
20
See Leckie, S., Returning Home: Housing and Property Restitution Rights for Refugees
and Displaced Persons, New York, Transnational Publishers, 2003.
21
See UDHR Article 17; Protocol 1 of the ECHR Article 1; IACHR Article 21; ACHPR Articles
14 and 21; ICERD Article 5(d)(vi); ICEDAW Articles 15(2) and 16(1)(h); Convention
Relating to the Status of Refugees Articles 13, 18–19, 29–30; International Convention
on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families Article 15. For a detailed elaboration of the right see Krause, C., ‘The right to property’ in Eide et al., op. cit., pp. 191–209.
22
CESCR General Comment No.4, op. cit., para. 4.
23
For the complete list see UN doc. E/CN.4/2002/59 para 46
24
Paragraph 31 of General Recommendation XXVII on Discrimination Against Roma states
that States should ‘act firmly against any discriminatory practices affecting Roma, mainly
by local authorities and private owners, with regard to taking up residence and access to
housing; to act firmly against local measures denying residence to and unlawful
expulsion of Roma, and to refrain from placing Roma in camps outside populated areas
that are isolated and without access to health care and other facilities.’
25
UN doc. E/CN.4/2003/5/Add. 2 para 18.
26
UN doc. E/CN.4/2003/5/Add. 3.
27
UN doc. E/CN.4/2004/48/Add.1 p. 20.
28
UN doc. E/CN.4/2004/48/Add.2 para 59.
29
See Report of the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing as a Component of the Right
to an Adequate Standard of Living, UN doc. E/CN.4/2004/48, 2004, paras 64–5.