Poverty News Roundup – Rights Review, AFB
Last week, two big documents came out and our roundup blog looks at the implications for economic and social policy and people living in poverty.
Tag Universal Periodic Review
United Nations review tells Canada to step up to end poverty, homelessness, and inequality
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GENEVA – The countries responsible for reviewing Canada’s human rights record for the third Universal Period Review (UPR) issued a list of recommendations focusing on addressing the inequalities and socioeconomic disparities facing Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities,…
Statement to the Pre-Session of the Third UPR
Statement made at the UPR-Info.org Pre-Session for Canada’s 3rd UPR 12 April 2018, to delegates of the United Nations and Canadian Non-governmental Organizations Delivered by Harriett McLachlan, Canada Without Poverty Deputy Director (interim) and immediate past-President of the Board of…
Canada Without Poverty and partners submit UPR report
This week, Canada Without Poverty (CWP), eleven partner organizations, and twelve supporting organizations in the anti-poverty movement, submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
Fed’s Take Action on Poverty & Human Rights?!
For more on the truth of the matter, go to the Homeless Hub to see CWP’s review of human rights ‘moments and misses’ this year, from a housing perspective. Here is a short blurb from the blog by our ED,…
Canada Turns its Back on Human Rights at UN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 18, 2013 Canada Turns its Back on Human Rights at UN OTTAWA: Canada is set to take to the world’s stage on Thursday and reject key human rights recommendations to address poverty, homelessness and hunger,…
Premiers call on Federal Government to Outline Housing Strategy
*Message from Dignity for All: the campaign for a poverty-free Canada UPDATE: Today marked the last day of the Council of the Federation meetings in Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario. Housing was set to be on the agenda for discussion, and it appears…
Press Release: Canada’s Human Rights Record Challenged
For immediate release: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND and OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – April 30, 2013) – Members of the United Nations Human Rights Council have formally challenged Canada’s human rights record with 83 countries making recommendations for enhanced rights protections. Part of the Universal…
2013: A Year to End Poverty
Every New Year there is an undercurrent of excitement of untapped opportunities. A sense of possibility and hopefulness that change will happen. This New Year is no different as a number of upcoming meetings, debates and movements are getting greater…