Centre for International Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Comparative Program on Health and Society, Munk Centre for International Studies & Wellesley Institute

present

Health, Housing and Human Rights: Exploring the Connections in Canada and Globally

Special events with the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing

We are thrilled to invite you to attend a series of events with Miloon Kothari, the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the 

Right to Adequate Housing. For almost a decade, Mr Kothari worked to elaborate the intersections between international human rights law and 

domestic policies and programs, through fact-finding missions to countries including Canada.

SAVE THE DATE

January 21 & 22, 2010

Free Registration. All welcome; students, faculty, community members. 

Information from www.cih.utoronto.ca

RSVP to elayna.fremes@utoronto.ca (Indicate event #[s] you will attend)

PROGRAMME

#1. Thursday, January 21, 1 pm-3pm, Music Room, Hart House

Organizing to ensure our rights are respected: - 

a civil society forum with Miloon Kothari and representatives from non-governmental housing and homelessness groups, equity-seeking organizations and others.

#2. Thursday, January 21, 5 pm-6:30pm, 6th Floor Auditorium, Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street

The right to housing, health and the reality of Canada's affordable housing crisis - 

a public forum with Miloon Kothari, along with Canadian and international speakers, to review Canada's progress in meeting its international housing rights obligations.

#3. Friday, January 22, 9am-12noon, 108N, Munk Centre

The right to housing and the right to health - 

a theoretical and research perspective. Mr. Kothari will meet with academics and students for a review of human rights and global realities.

#4. Friday, January 22, 1pm-2:30pm, 6th Floor Auditorium, Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street

Making rights matter - 

reflections on a decade as special rapporteur – Miloon Kothari will deliver reflections on his decade as the first United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the 

Right to Adequate Housing, including his experiences on a number of fact-finding missions, and observations on the impact of his work.

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Michael Shapcott | Director, Affordable Housing and Social Innovation | Wellesley Institute 

45 Charles St E, Suite 101                    Tel: 416.972.1010 ext 231
Toronto, ON, Canada,  M4Y 1S2           Mobile: 416.605.8316 
E-mail:   michael@wellesleyinstitute.com

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