The U.N. housing police The United Nations is fretting that the United States might be violating human rights by not providing adequate housing. To get to the bottom of the issue, the U.N. Human Rights Council has dispatched...
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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...
Raquel Rolnik is the U.N.'s new Special Rappoteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. So far, she has investigated forced evictions in Phnom Penh and housing destroyed by rising sea levels in the Maldives . This week, she's...