LAND

LAND

PLANNING & FINANCE

PLANNING & FINANCE

DESIGN

DESIGN

CONSTRUCTION

CONSTRUCTION

MANAGEMENT & USE

MANAGEMENT & USE

REDEVELOPMENT

REDEVELOPMENT

MANAGEMENT & USE

Building occupants, users, and workers all face human rights risks. 

Tenants, passengers, customers, and maintenance workers alike can be vulnerable to exploitation. In addition, with the growing role of technology – in security and maintenance of individual buildings, as well as throughout the fabric of urban environments – governments and companies must address privacy and data protection.

Click the overarching and stage-specific principles below to review the guiding questions across this stage. These questions will help you to identify the main human rights risks and opportunities and develop a tailored action plan.

Everyone, including marginalised communities, has healthy, accessible, affordable, sustainable, and safe, spaces to live, work, and be at leisure

Guiding questions

Are measures in place to mitigate the risk of harm to people living in, working in, and using buildings and infrastructure, and to maximise health and wellbeing? (See also Planning and Finance; Design)

Stories and illustrative examples

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