March 10, 2010
The UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, has written a report that shows the impact of “mega-events” in the realization of the right to adequate housing. She says, “I am...
Homelessness, Housing, International
August 18, 2009
It is never a good time to be poor but the criminalization of poverty seems to be intensifying locally and internationally. In Vancouver this week, a homeless man died in a park in East Vancouver in...
criminalization, Homelessness, Panhandling, British Columbia, International
July 17, 2009
An article in RaceWire looks at the myth of gay affluence and how poverty affects queer people of colour. Recent research looked at American census data and found queer couple families are...
Ethnicity and Race, LGBTQ, Poverty Research, International, United States
March 22, 2009
http://www.ryerson.ca/foodsecurity/ - The Centre for Studies in Food Security (CSFS) has been working to promote food security through research, dissemination, education, community action and...
Foodbanks and Food, General resources, All of Canada, International
January 9, 2009
Over the new year, a tent village was set up by a number of volunteer groups in a Tokyo park for the country’s growing number of unemployed workers. The organizers led a march to demand stable...
Homelessness, Unemployment, International
December 10, 2008
Today on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the National Council of Welfare (an advisory body to the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development) released an...
Human Rights, Poverty Research, Welfare, All of Canada, International
November 10, 2008
Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre is an centre in Belfast, Ireland that was set up to promote the interests and the benefits of the unemployed and other social and economically disadvantaged groups...
Unemployment, Workers' Rights, General resources, International
October 27, 2008
Twenty-five years ago, Canada was among the first countries to sign the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) treaty. The Canadian Feminist...
Women, All of Canada, International
September 7, 2008
Oxfam has just released a new book called, From Poverty to Power (full text online in PDF) which gives an analysis world economic, finicial and state systems and how they can be changed and are being...
Organizing, Poverty Research, International
August 10, 2008
According to a report, One World, Whose Dream? Housing Rights Violations and the Beijing Olympic Games (in PDF), released by the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 1.5 million people have been...
Housing, Human Rights, International
July 3, 2008
The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, an international program hosted by UN, has released two reports, Making the Law Work for Everyone Volume I and Making the Law Work for Everyone Volume...
Legal Research, International
May 28, 2008
Poor No More is a new documentary that will take poor Canadians on a journey to see first-hand what is being done here and in other countries to reduce and eliminate poverty. The film and the website...
Art and Culture, General resources, All of Canada, International
May 1, 2008
http://www.homeless.org.au/ is an international website about homelessness with a homeless newsfeed that links to stories from 4,500+ news sources.
Homelessness, General resources, International
May 1, 2008
The Canadian Parliament has endorsed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by a majority vote after Canada, along with the U.S., Australia and New Zealand voted against it in the U.N...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Human Rights, All of Canada, International
March 19, 2008
http://blog.makepovertyhistory.ca - This is the Make Poverty History Campaign's Blog. It was initiated to help grow the community of Make Poverty History and increase the connections and sharing in a...
Blogs, Organizing, General resources, International
March 19, 2008
http://technorati.com - Technorati is a blog search engine. You can use it like Google to find blogs.
Blogs, Technology, General resources, International
January 10, 2008
The International Movement ATD Fourth World (Canada) is a non-governmental organization that engages individuals and institutions in support of the efforts of the very poor to free themselves from...
Organizing, General resources, All of Canada, International
January 8, 2008
New research by Jack Hicks, a social research consultant living in Iqaluit, Nunavut, tracks how suicide trends in the Arctic correlate with increased colonialism and modernization in the Arctic....
Aboriginal and First Nations, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, All of Canada, International
January 2, 2008
The Poverty and Human Rights Centre is an online library with a searchable database of relevant international human rights treaties, Canadian law documents, court decisions, legal briefs, and...
Human Rights, Poverty Research, British Columbia, General resources, All of Canada, International
December 10, 2007
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research is a UN-affiliated intergovernmental organization concerned with all aspects of social welfare policy and research. The European Centre site has...
Government Policy, Poverty Research, General resources, International
