This book investigates grassroots, community-led justice strategies - legal empowerment - being used to promote the human rights of people living in informal settlements. The book will interest researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, working in social and economic rights, access to justice, urban poverty and development.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Legal Empowerment in Informal Settlements: Grassroots Experiences in the Global South 2. Legal empowerment approaches to gender equality in informal settlements 3. Active citizenship and access to justice: Embedding citizenship indicators within access-to-justice strategies in Rio's favelas 4. Empowering informal settlement communities for recognition and inclusion in the urban development discourse: Lessons from Accra, Ghana 5. Innovating participation to expand water and sanitation access under a special planning area in Mukuru informal settlements, Nairobi 6. Staking a claim: A case study of women's ongoing campaign to ensure inclusive and safe housing in Delhi 7. The right to the city and people's planning in the Philippines: Policies and prospects 8. Past resistance, present challenges: The law's contribution to the urban integration of Villa 31, Buenos Aires 9. Here to stay: Using legal strategies to claim rights in informal settlements in South Africa 10. And our voice opened up the pathway: Four women's fight to provide water to their community in Mexico 11. Winning the battle, losing the war: Land displacement and the limits of legal empowerment in urban Pakistan 12. Building coalitions and cases: Towards climate and housing justice in Bangladesh's informal settlements
