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The work of the National Report on the Right to Suitable Housing and Urban Land is focused on monitoring the implementation of the right to suitable housing in Brazil. Thus, in addition to prepare diagnostic and assessment reports on applicability and demandability of the right to housing in Brazil, of making Recommendations to the Brazilian Government, it also conducts missions to investigate and intermediate peaceful solutions to conflicts between civil society and competent (local, state and federal) authorities through application of the Federal Constitution, legal instruments of the Statute of the City as well as international legislation ratified by Brazil.
Since 2003, the Polis Institute has supported the National Reporters Project as a member organization of the Brazilian Platform of Human, economic, social and cultural Rights – DhESC (www.dhescbrasil.org.br), regional section of the Interamerican Platform of Human Rights, Democracy and Development – PIDhDD. Coordinator of the Urban Reform area of the Polis Institute, Nelson Saule Jr., has been serving since 2003 as the National Rapporteur on Housing, and attorney Patrícia de Menezes Cardoso, also of the Polis Institute, has been serving as aide to the Rapporteur, supported by the UNDP Volunteers Program.
The DhESC 2003 Report was presented to the UN Human Rights Commission and to the Interamerican Court of the Organization of American States – OAS. Brazil being the pioneer country in experience in National Reports on human rights, in 2004, the experience of this project was brought before and discussed by Latin American member nations of the PIDhDD in November 2004 as well as before the UN High Commission in Geneva of the same year.
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