[homeles_ot-l] Canada mission report - Special Rapporteur on adequate housing

[Lynne Browne]

FYI… the long-awaited UN report on housing in Canada.

 

Lynne Browne

Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness (ATEH)

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From: Bahram Ghazi [mailto:bghazi at ohchr.org] On Behalf Of srhousing OHCHR
Sent: March 5, 2009 6:11 AM
Subject: Canada mission report - Special Rapporteur on adequate housing


Dear All, 

This is to inform you that Mr. Miloon Kothari’s mission report to Canada has
been uploaded on the United Nations Human Rights Council’s webpage and is
publicly available. It can be located with other reports presented at the
HRC on the following webpage: 
HYPERLINK
"http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/10session/reports.htm"http:/
/www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/10session/reports.htm  
A copy of the report is attached to this message for your convenience. 

The new Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Ms. Raquel Rolnik, will
present the report as well as her other reports to the Human Rights Council
on Monday 9 March in the afternoon (between 3 and 6 p.m. Geneva time). The
debates and interventions, including the official response of the Canadian
Government, are broadcasted over the Internet: 
http://www.un.org/webcast/unhrc/ 
All these interventions are also archived and can be viewed later. 

Mr. Kothari wishes to thank everyone for their cooperation and contribution
to the mission and the drafting of the present report. He wishes that the
report and the recommendations will be helpful to the realization of the
right to adequate housing of all. He also hopes that interested persons and
organizations throughout Canada will follow-up on the recommendations and
issues contained in the report and continue their collaboration with the new
mandate-holder. 

Please fell free to circulate the information to interested persons. 
Warm regards. 



For more information on the mandate of the Special Rapporteur and the right
to adequate housing, please consult the webpage herebelow. 

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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing
as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, 
and on the right to non-discrimination in this context 

Special Procedures Division
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Mailing Address: UNOG - OHCHR CH-1211 Geneva 10
Tel. (+41-22) 917 91 77
Fax (+41-22) 917 90 06
E-mail: srhousing at ohchr.org

Internet: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/housing/index.htm

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