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Picture the Homeless Hosts the UN Special Investigator into Extreme Poverty
On October 24th, 2005, for the first time since the birth of the modern human rights system over half of century ago, a United Nations expert began a formal visit to the United States to document extreme poverty and the underlying human rights violations that create it. Mr. Arjun Sengupta, the U.N. Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty began his visit at Picture the Homeless, a grassroots group founded and led by homeless people organizing for social change. Mr. Sengupta met and spoke with homeless community leaders, as well as community leaders working on worker's rights, immigrant rights, welfare rights, and food and income security. The testimonies from this extraordinary meeting between poor New Yorkers and a renowned international expert show that poverty is neither inevitable nor impossible to abolish. They also show that only by abolishing poverty will we be able to ensure the human rights of all people in this country.
The role of U.N. Independent Experts is to document the conditions and experiences of the people they visit, undertake research to understand the reason for those conditions, and report back to the international community the human rights situation they observe. We have great expectations that Mr. Sengupta will let the international community know about the deeply unnecessary and egregious human rights violations that extreme poverty represents in the United States. We welcome international support for our struggle to abolish poverty and social exclusion, as it is part of a global struggle to create a community of nations grounded in the principles of peace and human rights.
The October 24th meeting was co-facilitated by Picture the Homeless and the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative.
The role of U.N. Independent Experts is to document the conditions and experiences of the people they visit, undertake research to understand the reason for those conditions, and report back to the international community the human rights situation they observe. We have great expectations that Mr. Sengupta will let the international community know about the deeply unnecessary and egregious human rights violations that extreme poverty represents in the United States. We welcome international support for our struggle to abolish poverty and social exclusion, as it is part of a global struggle to create a community of nations grounded in the principles of peace and human rights.
The October 24th meeting was co-facilitated by Picture the Homeless and the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative.
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