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The 25th Article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the only article which refers to the built environment. It says that adequate shelter and housing are a fundamental human right.

Article 25 is a UK registered charity that designs and delivers architectural solutions for those in greatest need worldwide.  We build bigger, better, safer, more sustainable, innovative structures in developing countries and after disaster. We have saved projects which would have failed, made buildings safe which would have been deadly and provided buildings which our partner charities thought would take three or four times the budget we used.

We are architects, engineers, physicists, project managers and other built environment experts. We build schools bridges, clinics and homes, and rebuild lives. We provide free or not for profit construction services to aid agencies, charities, NGOs and communities.

We are an operational NGO – which many are not. This means we are active running our projects as a full service team, not placing lone professionals on the ground, unsupported. We work through the whole project with full community involvement an we give people buildings which are  a lasting  tool for combatting poverty and reaching the MDGs.

We have a database (the BEAR) of dedicated volunteers and a core of incredible professional staff, working for those who most need us, but would not otherwise be able to afford professional skills. We make community consultation and partciipation the centre of our projects. We build capacity.

We envision in a world where there is never a life or a livelihood lost for the want of a built solution that can preserve or serve it.

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A25 WINS AWARD at MIPIM 09

Article 25 has been awarded the "Diploma of Special Recognition" at the 2009 Awards at MIPIM for our project building earthquake proof sustainable housing in Pakistan from 2006-8. The Judges said that they were particularly inspired by the project the first non-commercial award winner recognised at the MIPIM event which brought together 15,000 attendees this year from the built environment professions.

[ the declaration of human rights ]

This extract below is from Third World Network: http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/housing.htm

"Since the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the right to adequate housing has found explicit recognition in a wide range of international instruments.

The Declaration itself, in Article 25.1, says that “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood beyond his control." The right to adequate housing has been further elaborated in Art. 11.1 of the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and in other instruments focussing on the need to protect rights of particular groups; the 1979 Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Art. 14.2), the 1989 Convention on Rights of the Child (Art. 16.1), and the 1951 Convention on Status of Refugees (Art. 21)"

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