National Forum & Report Examine Housing as U.S. Human Rights Crisis

Press Type: Press Release   Associated Program: Human Rights

Released: 05/2011

National Forum & Report Examine Housing as U.S. Human Rights Crisis

What: National Forum on the Human Right to Housing & Release of "Simply Unacceptable": Homelessness & the Human Right to Housing

When: June 7-8, 2011

Where: Thurgood Marshall Center, 1816 12^th Street NW, Washington, D.C.

Background: As millions of Americans continue to suffer the effects of the foreclosure crisis, advocates from across the country, homeless and formerly homeless people, and attorneys from major law firms will gather in Washington, D.C. at the 2011 National Forum on the Human Right to Housing. The event, hosted by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, will highlight the voices of those experiencing homelessness, as well as advocates and government officials working to address the housing crisis. In the wake of international condemnation of our treatment of our homeless population, national experts will address a range of timely topics, including human rights approaches to budget analysis, legal harassment of homeless persons, homeless childrens right to an education, and more.

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The Forum will conclude with a congressional briefing (June 8, 2 p.m., Capitol Visitors Center Room 268) examining the Federal Strategic Plan to End and Prevent Homelessness one year after its release, using a human rights perspective.

In advance of the Forum, on June 2, the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty will release "Simply Unacceptable": Homelessness & the Human Right to Housing, a groundbreaking report assessing the current level of U.S. compliance with the human right to housing in the context of American homelessness. It offers a report card, grading the U.S. on its progress on each of the seven international standards of the right to housing. 

The Forum is co-sponsored by the American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness & Poverty and these partners, and is supported by the U.S. Human Rights Fund; Steptoe & Johnson LLP; Au Bon Pain; Jones Day; Manatt, Phelps, & Phillips LLP; Mayer Brown LLP; and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, & Jacobson LLP.

More information and registration are available at www.nlchp.org/2011Forum.cfm. 

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