WUNRN
12 Must Know Facts About Women & Homelessness
http://www.projectrenewal.org/blog/2014/3/13/12-must-know-facts-about-women-and-home
STATE OF HOMELESSNESS IN AMERICA 2012 – 56 Pages
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z-pdf-archive/homeless.pdf
FEANTSA, - http://www.feantsa.org/spip.php?rubrique13&lang=en - the European Federation of National Organisations working
with the Homeless, was established in 1989 as a European non-governmental
organisation to prevent and alleviate the poverty and social exclusion of
people threatened by or living in homelessness. It is the only major European
network that focuses exclusively on homelessness. FEANTSA currently has more than 130 member organisations, working in close
to 30 European countries, including 28 EU Member States. Most of FEANTSA’s members are national or regional umbrella
organisations of service providers that support homeless people with a wide range of
services, including housing, health, employment and social support. They often
work in close co-operation with public authorities, social housing providers
and other relevant actors. FEANTSA works closely with the EU institutions, and has
consultative status at the Council of Europe and the United Nations. It
receives financial support from the European Commission.
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HOMELESSNESS & THE RIGHT TO HOUSING – Questionnaire for
Special Rapporteur Report – HOMELESS
WOMEN
Introduction
For her
next report to the Human Rights Council, 31st session, the Special Rapporteur
on the right to housing, Leilani Farha, intends to focus on the intimate link
between homelessness and the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing, as
well as virtually all other human rights, including the right to life and
non-discrimination.
Homelessness
has emerged as a global human rights crisis even in States where there are
adequate resources to address it. It has, however, been largely insulated from
human rights accountability and rarely addressed as a human rights violation
requiring positive measures to eliminate and to prevent its recurrence. While
strategies to address homelessness have become more prevalent in recent years,
most have failed to address homelessness as a human rights violation and few
have provided for effective monitoring, enforcement or remedies.
The report
will explore how homelessness is understood and manifests in diverse social,
cultural, economic and even linguistic contexts. It will consider homelessness
both as serious deprivation of access to housing and as an extreme form of
social exclusion, discrimination and loss of dignity. It will seek to identify
and understand less visible experiences of homelessness, particularly among
women.
The report
of the Special Rapporteur will be presented to the Human Rights Council in
March 2016, and will be available in all UN languages.
Questionnaires
for governments and other relevant actors
The
Special Rapporteur invites Governments and other relevant actors, such as
National Human Rights Institutions, civil society organisations, networks, UN
agencies and entities, and others with relevant information to share
contributions and inputs for her report.
All
responses to the Questionnaires will be posted in this webpage, except if
indicated otherwise.
Due to
limited capacity for translation, we request that you submit your answers, if
possible, in English, Spanish or French and, no later than 28
October, 2015.
Please
send your responses preferably in electronic version via email to: srhousing@ohchr.org, or to:
UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Special Procedures Branch, Palais Wilson
CH – 1211, Geneva
Switzerland
Questionnaire for NHRI, NGOs, UN agencies, etc in English | French | Spanish
Example – English: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Housing/Homelessness/Questionnaire_NGOs_EN.pdf