[homeles_ot-l] Monday 22nd-Ottawa - UN's Miloon Kothari preliminary findings on adequate housing - 1:30 pm

Thu Oct 18 14:52:35 EDT 2007

Hello everyone,

The UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing will present his preliminary
findings on October 22, 2007, Monday, at 1:30 pm. We’ve sent out a Media
Advisory and reminded Ottawa reporters of the helpful community people and
agencies we arranged for Miloon Kothari to speak with here in our city. It’s
below (and attached along with the official UNHCR advisory in English and
French).

Apparently, there is room for 200 people in the Main Ottawa Public Library,
Auditorium, 120 Metcalfe (at the corner of Metcalfe and Laurier), so you are
welcome to attend.

Hope to see some of you there,

Lynne

Lynne Browne 
Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness 
147 Besserer Street, Ottawa ON  K1N 6A7 
613-241-7913 x 205, lbrowne at ysb.on.ca 
www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca 

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The Alliance to End Homelessness

Text Box: STEERING COMMITTEE
Mary-Martha Hale, Chair Alliance to End Homelessness & Director, Anglican
Social Services – Centre 454
Perry Rowe, Vice-Chair
& Executive Director, The Salvation Army Ottawa Booth Centre
Members
Tim Aubry
Senior Researcher, Centre for Research on Educational and Community
Services, University of Ottawa
Sheila Burnett
Co- Executive Director, Shepherds of Good Hope
Sue Garvey
Director, Cornerstone/LePilier
Khristin Hunter, ex officio
United Way / Centraide Ottawa Director, Community Impact & Investment
Rosine Kaley
Executive Director, Action-Logement/Action-Housing
Terrie Meehan
Community Representative
Marilyn Mills
Counselling Services Coordinator, Pinecrest-Queensway Health and Community
Services
Ministry of Community and Social Services, ex officio
Community Services, Program Supervisor
Diane Morrison
Executive Director, The Mission
Wendy Muckle
Executive Director,
Ottawa Inner City Health
Judy Perley

YMCA-YWCA

Trudy Sutton

Dan Sabourin

MEDIA ADVISORY 

“UN Special Rapporteur on right to adequate housing

to release preliminary findings”

Monday, Oct. 22, 2007 at 1:30 p.m.

At the end of his first official fact-finding mission in Canada from 9 - 22
October 2007, Miloon Kothari, the United Nations’ Human Rights Council's
Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, will hold a press conference at the
Main Ottawa Public Library on Monday 22 October 2007 at 1:30 PM.

The Special Rapporteur will present his preliminary findings on adequate
housing and other related rights in Canada, with a special focus on
homelessness, women, indigenous peoples and the effects of mega-events on
housing.

Mr. Kothari met with a number of federal, provincial and city housing and
homelessness officials, national organizations and community-based groups
during a national tour including visits to Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton,
Vancouver and Toronto. 

In Ottawa, The Alliance to End Homelessness (ATEH) arranged for the Special
Rapporteur to speak personally with people who are homeless or living on low
incomes on October 11th. 

Mr. Kothari spoke with people at Centre 454, a downtown drop-in Day Program,
then visited several Ottawa shelters, including, the Shepherds of Good Hope
Emergency Shelter, its Managed Alcohol Program and Hope Outreach Program;
Cornerstone/Le Pilier Women’s Shelter, and the Youth Services Bureau’s Young
Men’s Emergency & Transitional Housing. He was also taken on a driving tour
of non-profit housing developments run by the Centretown Citizens Ottawa
Corporation (CCOC) and ended his time with ATEH by meeting with 7 mothers
who are newcomers at Debra Dynes Community House.

WHAT:              Press Conference with UN’s Miloon Kothari

WHEN:             22 October 2007

WHERE:         Main Ottawa Public Library, Auditorium, 

                        120 Metcalfe (at the corner of Metcalfe and Laurier)

                        Ottawa.

TIME:              1:30PM

-30-

For further information, please call:

                  Re: Oct 11th Ottawa visit – Lynne Browne, Cell
613-513-6647

                  Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness 

Or call: 

      Re: information on the Press Conference – UNHCR Office in Canada, 

      Nanda Na Champassak, 613 232-0909 ext. 236,   HYPERLINK
"mailto:champass at unhcr.org"champass at unhcr.org

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