Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Joe Nolan* NASHVILLE, Tennessee, USA, Jul 14, 2011 (IPS/ The Contributor) – While Americans are taking sides in the ongoing battle about the future of American healthcare, one underrepresented group is especially vulnerable to the change – or lack of change – that may be afoot: the [...]
U.S.: Brain Injuries Especially Invisible Among Homeless – Part II
June 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kate Cox* PORTLAND, Oregon , Jun 24, 2011 (IPS/Street Roots) – James Smith is a 53-year-old Portland veteran who used to have a job he loved. After a car accident left him with traumatic brain and neck injuries in 2005, Smith lost his job, ran out of [...]
U.S. Brain Injuries May Push Victims into Homelessness – Part I
June 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kate Cox* PORTLAND, Oregon, Jun 23, 2011 (IPS/Street Roots) – You might say Nick Patton was born to fish. Literally born on a boat, Nick spent his earliest years living in orphanages along the Alaskan coastline. He ran away at the age of eight and quickly learned [...]
U.S.: Budget Cuts Threaten Handful of Beds for Homeless Youth
March 31, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Cléo Fatoorehchi NEW YORK, Mar 30, 2011 (IPS) – When Malika, 21, fled her parents’ house in the U.S. state of Virginia three years ago to escape a forced marriage in Iran, she did not expect to end up homeless and living in shelters. "When I came [...]
Following a Paper Trail Out of Homelessness
October 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D’Almeida NEW YORK, Oct 14, 2010 (IPS) – While questions of funding and accountability shadow the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), some actors have taken matters into their own hands. On Wednesday, the Glasgow-based International Network for Street Papers (INSP) announced that it has [...]
MIDEAST: Homeless Take On Israeli Forces
August 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Aug 10, 2010 (IPS) – A bruising battle of will is taking place between Israeli security forces and Palestinians recently made homeless after two Palestinian villages were razed and hundreds left homeless. During the last few weeks over a thousand heavily armed Israeli riot [...]
HAITI: Six Months On, Shelter Still a Main Priority
July 12, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON, Jul 12, 2010 (IPS) – Six months ago Monday, an earthquake rocked the western hemisphere’s poorest country, driving it deeper into poverty and burying it under its nascent infrastructure. The 7.0 quake killed 230,000 people and its after-effects – hunger, contaminated water, escalating [...]
RIGHTS-INDIA: Shelter for the Homeless amid Big Chill
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – Happiness for Alok and Saddam is the bare canvas tent set up in the middle of a grassy traffic island close to Delhi Gate, the entrance to the old quarter of India’s capital. "For warmth we have each other," [...]
RIGHTS-FRANCE: Homeless Prefer Streets to Gov’t Shelter
December 20, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS A. D. McKenzie PARIS, Dec 20 (IPS) – They huddle in the doorways of buildings with their few belongings, trying to keep warm. Or they sleep in covered shopping centres, accompanied by their pets – usually dogs. Some, reluctantly, make their way to government-run shelters. These are France’s homeless [...]
RIGHTS-US: U.N. Investigator Probes Housing Crisis
November 4, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS, Nov 4 (IPS) – The U.N. body responsible for monitoring human rights violations is investigating why hundreds of thousands – and possibly millions – of people in the United States are condemned to live on the streets. Last month, the U.N. Geneva-based Human Rights Council [...]
