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.
Tenants and users are free from harassment and displacement
Guiding questions
Is infrastructure operated and maintained in a way that ensures non-discrimination in access and the health, safety and security of local communities?
Are measures in place to ensure no discrimination against prospective or existing tenants on the grounds of race, gender, sexual orientation, language, religion, ability, or other status?
Are properties maintained in a condition that ensures the health, safety and wellbeing of occupants?
Are measures in place to prevent any intimidation or harassment of tenants, including specific measures for women and marginalised groups, by building owners or associated entities?
Are tenants free to organise without threats of retaliation?
Are tenants protected from forced evictions?
For workplaces; are the workers' rights of those who work in the building?
