United Nations
General Assembly
A/HRC/34/51/Add.1
Distr.: General
10 January 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fourth session
27 February-24 March 2017
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a
component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and
on the right to non-discrimination in this context, on her
mission to India
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of
the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing as a component of the right to an
adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, Leilani
Farha, on her mission to India from 11 to 22 April 2016, pursuant to Human Rights Council
resolution 31/9. The main objective of the visit was to examine the housing and homeless
conditions of vulnerable groups in different parts of the country, as well as legislation,
policies and programmes in place and gaps in the enjoyment of the right to adequate
housing at the national and subnational levels.
GE.17-00256(E)