Human Rights up Front speaks to the essence of the United Nations. It is a lens through which the Organization will examine and respond to threats of serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law and by that identify actions needed to prevent mass atrocities and armed conflict.

Human rights-based monitoring has two major objectives: (1) to help identify, on an ongoing basis, the areas on which duty-bearers may need to concentrate, or to which it may need to redirect its attention if its targets for the realization of human rights are to be attained in the most expeditious and effective manner; and (2) to enable a right-holder to hold the duty-bearer accountable for its failure to discharge its duties.

The High Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP) and the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) have identified Human Rights as one of five interlinked elements that are critical to make the UN “fit for purpose” in achieving the post-2015 development agenda: universality, integration, equality, human rights and the data revolution.

To ensure that there would be effective engagement
by African countries in the process of generating an
‘Urban Agenda’ for the 21st century which recognizes
the ever-changing dynamics of human civilization, the
Governments of Nigeria and Ghana have committed to
facilitate an active, evidence-based and highly inclusive
Preparatory Process for Habitat II, with all stakeholders
from across the continent in atendance, through a project
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The shortage of finance for housing has long been recognized as one of the obstacles to the provision of housing for low-income households.