1. UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing Leilani Farha will pay an official visit to the Republic of Korea from May 14 till 23.

※ Since March 2008, the ROK, along with other 117 member states of the UN, has been participating in the “standing invitation” program, which, in principle, calls for accepting visit requests from special procedures of the UN Human Rights Council in order to facilitate their duty performance.

2. During her visit to the ROK, Special Rapporteur Farha will meet with officials of government agencies -- the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the National Police Agency, the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, and the Ministry of Employment and Labor -- and other organizations, including the National Human Rights Commission, the National Assembly, the Supreme Court, the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, Korea Land and Housing Corporation, Korea Housing Finance Corporation, the Korea Association of Realtors, and Korea Railroad Corporation. She will also visit the Seoul and Busan Metropolitan City governments and hold a press conference at the Seoul Press Center at 10:00 am, May 23.

° The Special Rapporteur’s report on the outcome of the visit and recommendations will be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2019.

3. The Special Rapporteur on adequate housing is one of the special procedures of the UN Human Rights Council, whose mandate was established in 2000 pursuant to a resolution adopted by the UN Commission on Human Rights, the predecessor of the current Human Rights Council. Special Rapporteur Farha was appointed to the post in May 2014.

° The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing includes gathering information on the situation regarding adequate housing around the world, challenges and model practices; and making recommendations to individual countries on ways to improve their relevant systems.

* unofficial translation