Derecho a la vivienda en Suriname

Suriname recognizes the Right to Housing in its Constitution.

Law Of 30 September 1949, On The Protection For Tenants Of Apartments And Houses

Multi-Annual Development Plan 2022-2026

After the Policy Development Plan 2017-2021, the Multi-Annual Development Plan 2022-2026 thus builds on the Recovery Plan 2020-2022 and further implements the Planning Act, which has as its mission a balanced socially-just development of society. The Multi-Annual Development Plan 2022-2026 does not intend to solve all problems in the country and represent all interests, but rather to set out a strategy (vision, direction, priorities, and implementation). These have been chosen and formulated in such a way that they are feasible in terms of implementation capacity and financial capacity, and so that the Republic can respond favorably to foreseeable opportunities and threats, such as globalization and climate change.

Relating to land and housing, the main policies include:

- Adopt Apartment Law

- More affordableand faster handling of family land transfers

- Annual construction of 500 homes for social housing

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)

Art. 11. "The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The States Parties shall take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the essential importance of international co-operation based on free consent". (Ratification/Accession: 1976).

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Art. 14. "States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in rural areas in order to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women, their participation in and benefit from rural development and in particular shall ensure to them the right to: (...) (g) To enjoy adequate living conditions, particularly in the areas of housing, sanitation, electricity and water supply, transport and communications." (Ratification/Accession: 1993).

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Art.27. "States Parties, in accordance with national conditions and within their means, shall take appropriate measures to assist parents and others responsible for the child to implement this right and, where necessary, shall provide material assistance and support programs, particularly with regard to nutrition, clothing and housing." (Ratification/Accession: 1993).

International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination

Art. 5. "In conformity with the obligations stipulated in Article 2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, color, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following rights: (...) (e) Economic, social and cultural rights, in particular: (iii) The right to housing". (Ratification/Accession: 1984).

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Art. 17. “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his honor and reputation" (Ratification/Accession: 1976).