Miloon Kothari, the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, is currently undertaking an official visit to Canada, including stops in Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, Lubicon and Kahnawake.
Check out a new series of popular education regarding social and economic rights in Canada – produced by the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
From CERA - CENTRE FOR EQUALITY RIGHTS IN ACCOMMODATION WOMEN’S HOUSING PROGRAM
INTRODUCTION
Twenty-five years ago, any discussion of the "homeless" in Canada referred to a relatively small number of transient single men living in "flop houses" in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver.Today, widespread homelessness in Canada is recognized as a 'national disaster' that is both rural and urban and which most dramatically affects women and children.
