RIGHTS-INDIA: Shelter for the Homeless amid Big Chill
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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
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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
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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 [...]
