Preserving land rights of the poor

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. People should be protected by law against unfair eviction from their homes or land. All countries should have adopted and/or strengthened national shelter strategies with targets as appropriate based on the principles and recommendations contained in the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000.

1. Respecting land rights of a people
2. Limiting rights to land
3. Increasing security of land tenure
4. Asserting property rights
5. Asserting customary resource rights of marginalized peoples

1. Improving access to shelter for poor
2. Ensuring availability of land for low-income groups
3. Encouraging self-building of houses

1. Developing marginal agricultural lands
2. Assisting those in poverty

1. Rights
2. Poverty
3. Land