Institutional profile: Habitat International Coalition 1976–2006

• social organizations and movements, associations and cooperatives that unite inhabitants struggling to implement their rights to the city, land and housing; • civil or non-governmental organizations or unions that unite professionals and technicians who act in solidarity with people’s causes and who orient their work to support habitat production and social management processes; • academic groups, researchers and technicians focused on urban and housing issues and other issues such as the environment and gender, that cross the broad field of human habitat; and • organizations and activists interested in promoting, defending and guaranteeing the fulfilment of the human rights linked to habitat, in particular in relation to the homeless, the evicted and displaced, women and society’s most vulnerable sectors.