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Multi-stakeholder guideline : on mega-events and the protection and promotion of housing rights / Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) ; prep. by Claire Mahon
Edited by Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions - 2007
These guidelines call for all mega-event stakeholders to play their part in promoting and protecting housing rights, so that everyone, including the local residents, can reap the benfits of hosting a mega-event. They are founded on the principle of compliance with international human rights law and standards. They call for the full implementation of strategies directed and preventing any potential negative impacts on housing rights and maximising the possible positive legacies in terms of the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing. These guidelines are directed towards all mega-event stakeholders, including : mega-event governing bodies, cities applying to host or selected to host mega-events, government applying to host or selected to host mega-events, municipal authorities, mega-event organising committees, mega-event sponsors and partners, shareholders, development coprorations, architectures firms, building corporations, members of the construction industry, mega-event suppliers, mega-event participants such as athletes, volunteers, and spectators, sporting associations and federations, event exhibitors, consumers, community activists, NGOs, housing policy makers, service providers, urban planners, landlords and property owners, the media, the international community as a whole, and not lease of all local residents.