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FIABCI and United Nations
FIABCI enjoys ‘Special Consultative’ status at the United Nations. What does this
mean?
FIABCI’s relations with the UN take on three forms :
Advisory
FIABCI advises the United Nations on various aspects
regarding property activities. The United Nations and above all ECOSOC, its Economic
and Social Council, are currently working on a number of property issues such as
:
- Measuring regulations
- Co-ownership
- Urbanism
- Valuation
- Transaction security
- Rules for entering and exercising the property professions
It is essential that people from the property sector are represented in these deliberations
and contribute their experience and knowledge. Globalization has finally reached
the property business and it is becoming increasingly necessary to adopt:
- International regulations
- Common codes of ethics
These regulations and rules need to be drawn up with the participation of specialists
in the field and not just technocrats. Fiabci is making sure that this is the case.
Policy
Fiabci’s role is to establish and develop policy concerning property matters and
pass this information on to the United Nations.
This has been especially the case with regard to the thorny problem of the homeless
or that of the property business and the environment.
Fiabci has published reports on these issues that the United
Nations always refers to.
Fiabci is currently working on . Over the centuries, property rights were only considered
as involving owners and tenants. Now, leading economists see property rights as
being the backbone of any community and one of the keys to prosperity.
Hernando de Soto, the famous Peruvian economist, explains the differences in the
development of some countries in terms of the extent they have been able to take
advantage of property and land ownership and their ability to issue title deeds
that are :
- Proper
- Simple
That says everything about the importance that a country’s property rights legislation
has on its economy.
Fiabci is currently working on a “White Paper” on property rights that will be presented
to the United Nations. This will be an important part of Fiabci policy.
Charity Initiatives
Fiabci and have also instigated a number of charity property initiatives
One of these programmes was the creation of the Global Housing Foundation and the
construction of dozens of houses in Nicaragua, in collaboration with the United
Nations.
René Frank, Fiabci honorary deputy president who started this programme, succeeded
in ensuring its future development. For that reason, he was awarded the UN-Habitat
trophy in 2003.
Sustainable Development is a term that incorporates the following notions :
- Problem of the homeless
- property rights
- Environment
- Codes of ethics
This is a real challenge for a non-exclusive world economy that more and more are
discovering. This is the subject of agreements between governments, companies and
the United Nations within the framework of the so-called “Global compact”.
Fiabci quite rightly prides itself on having been and still being in the forefront
of these issues that demand both a high level of professionalism and the desire
to be useful to one’s fellow men.
Fiabci’s members can be proud of the organization they belong to for this reason
alone.
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Delegates to United Nations within Fiabci
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Regional Offices
Department of Public Information (DPI)
- Luis Correa (CO)
- John Pinson (US)
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