[homeles_ot-l] Fw: Human Rights and Housing in Ottawa

Fri Jun 28 10:27:32 EDT 2013

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From:      
 Lynne Belle-Isle/CAS 
To:      
 Tous,  
Date:      
 26/06/2013 03:40 PM 
Subject:    
   Fw: Human Rights
and Housing in Ottawa 
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FYI

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Lynne Belle-Isle
Programs Consultant, Canadian AIDS Society/Conseillère de programmes, Société
canadienne du sida
Chair, Canadian Drug Policy Coalition/Présidente, Coalition canadienne
des politiques sur les drogues
PhD Candidate, CARBC, University of Victoria/Candidate au doctorat, CARBC,
Université de Victoria
tel/tél : 250-853-3235 (Victoria, BC)
fax/téléc : 250-472-5321
websites/sites web : www.cdnaids.cawww.drugpolicy.cawww.carbc.ca

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To: <LynneB at cdnaids.ca>
From: Canada Without Poverty and Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation 
Sent by: "Canada Without Poverty and Centre for Equality Rights in
Accommodation" 
Date: 06/20/2013 07:01PM
Subject: Human Rights and Housing in Ottawa

Help us continue our work to end poverty
in Canada.  

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Promoting Human Rights in Housing across
Ontario …. Join the Conversation 
Discrimination against Aboriginal renters...The
lack of rental housing that is accessible to people with disabilities...Social
housing rules that limit options for families with children...Municipal
by-laws that restrict rental housing or group homes...Not-In-My-Backyard
opposition to social housing... 
These are all housing issues. They are also
human rights issues. Human rights law can be a valuable tool in responding
to communities’ unique housing needs and priorities. CERA – The Centre
for Equality Rights in Accommodation,
in collaboration with Canada
Without Poverty, wants to tell
you more.   
Over the past year, CERA has worked with
partners in Thunder Bay, London, Hamilton, Sudbury, and Windsor to investigate
local housing issues that could benefit from CERA’s human rights-based
approach and expertise, and develop collaborative strategies and initiatives
to address them.  We want Ottawa to be part of that conversation.  
Please join us! 
CERA and Canada Without Poverty will be hosting
a meeting in Ottawa to bring together a small group of agencies, organizations,
municipal staff and housing providers to discuss local housing issues and
their human rights implications, and possible ways that CERA could assist. 
WHEN:  Wednesday June 26th 2012 from 9:00am-12:00pm  ***A light breakfast and refreshments will
be provided. 
WHERE:  Under One Roof (now 25OneCommunity)
@ 251 Bank Street (corner of Cooper and Bank). This is an accessible building.  
RSVP:  Numbers are limited. Please
RSVP to: maureen at cwp-csp.ca 
CERA is a provincial non-profit organization
established in 1987 to promote human rights in housing. CERA uses provincial,
national, and international human rights law to help remove the barriers
that keep low income individuals and families from accessing and retaining
the housing they need. We do this through human rights research, law reform
and advocacy, test case litigation and through providing individual assistance
to people who have experienced discrimination related to their housing. 

Leilani Farha
Executive Director,
Canada Without Poverty,
Canada Without Poverty Advocacy Network 

Our mailing address is:  
Canada Without Poverty 
251 Bank Street, 2nd Floor 
Ottawa, On K2P 1X3  
Canada 

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