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In cities, the right to decent housing and affordable rent is increasingly undermined. Evictions, unhealthy conditions: housing is becoming a subject of speculation.

Because of real estate financiarisation, the tourist industry and the gentrification of neighbourhoods, people of modest means are continually forced to move further away from the city centres. Housing becomes a matter for speculators, a new battleground for inequality and social violence. What are the current possibilities for reclaiming space and the city? How can we make the right to adequate housing a reality?

The panel will open with the signature by the Mayor of Geneva, Mr. Sami Kanaan, of the manifesto "The Shift" initiated by Leilani Farha in an effort to recognize the right to suitable housing as a human right.

Push (Rough Cut) is about the struggle of Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Housing Rights, who acts as a spokesperson for the most vulnerable and puts the human rights issue back at the centre of the debate.
The debate will be held in English with simultaneous French translation.

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Co-presented with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights