''The government of Myanmar has officially committed itself to respecting these rights. The most well-known international human rights document, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR, 1948), applies to every country and includes the first-ever mention in a global document of the ‘right to adequate housing’ in its Article 25(1). The Declaration creates obligations for the government of Myanmar. Additionally, in October 2017, the Myanmar government committed to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) (1966). Article 11(1) of s and commits all government authorities – at the Union, state and local levels – to comply with its terms. In 1991, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights adopted ‘General Comment No. 4 on the Right to Adequate Housing’ which interprets Article 11(1) of the ICESCR. It lists the following seven components form the core contents of the human right to adequate housing: (a) legal security of tenure; (b) availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure; (c) location; (d) habitability; (e) affordability; (f) accessibility; and (g) cultural adequacy. If you do not have any of these guarantees in place, your right to adequate housing is not yet in place. Everyone in the country, therefore, can legally demand that their HLP rights guaranteed by the UDHR, the ICESCR and other treaties that create additional rights, are fully complied with by all public officials in Myanmar, and that new national laws recognising these are put in place as promised...''