United Nations UPR Stakeholders’ Summary Released.

The UN Stakeholder Compilation Report was published recently and is now available on the United Nations Human Rights website. The report is a summary of 60 stakeholder submissions to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Ireland and is compiled by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The report noted the Forum’s description of the social housing shortfall and its implications on human rights, notably for households with children and for young people starting out in life, and our recommendations to address these issues.

It is the view of Cork Social Housing Forum that access to housing is a basic human right as well as a human need with inherent implications for economic, social, cultural and political needs.

A house is first and foremost a home and not just a market commodity, but over-emphasis by successive Irish Governments on the latter has resulted in this human rights crisis.

The Summary report will assist members of the Human Rights Council in advance of Ireland's examination before the UPR Working Group in Geneva on 6 October 2011.