Addressing spatial segregation and its consequences is an important facet in the current debate on racial justice and equality, and critical to advancing equitable, sustainable development and ensuring community resiliency, the UN Special Rapporteur on housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, said today. Spatial segregation is understood as the imposed or preferred separation of groups of people in a particular territory by lines of race, caste, ethnicity, language, religion, or income status. Historically attention to segregation went hand in hand with the international outcry and condemnation of apa…

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