Habitat International Coalition-Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN)

First formed as a civil alliance at the 1st UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat I) in 1976, the Habitat International Coalition (HIC) is a South-based independent, international, non-profit alliance of some 400 member-organizations, academic centers, social movements and individuals in over 100 countries working in the field of human settlements.

The Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) is HIC’s structure promoting the UN Habitat Agenda’s human rights dimension, and is dedicated to monitoring, operationalizing, and further developing the human rights to adequate housing and land as international-law norms.

HIC-HLRN works with rural, urban, and indigenous HIC members and allies to realize those rights for everyone, everywhere.