03/01/2010
"The report to the United Nations, due later this year, is a requirement of the organization’s new 'Universal Periodic Review' program for member nations."
"On Friday, advocates for education, housing, health, employment and criminal justice took to the podium to highlight problems facing their sectors and ways the government might address them. There was a heavy focus on housing rights."
“'Housing rights violations are some of the most visible human rights violations in our country,' said Eric Tars, human rights director at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. 'The international community has increasingly taken note of America’s failure to uphold the right to housing,' he added."