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Street people sleeping in the Company Gardens, Cape Town. Homelessness in South Africa dates back to the apartheid period. [1] Increasing unemployment, lack of affordable housing, social disintegration, and social and economic policies have all been identified as contributing factors to the issue. [2]
The rights such as the right to public participation, equality, human dignity, and access to information are amongst the cross cutting rights linked with right to adequate housing as noted by the Constitutional Court in Government of the Republic of South Africa and Others v Grootboom and Others 2001 (1) SA 46 (CC) [8]
The South African government has been criticised by Human Rights Watch for deporting hundreds of thousands of Zimbabwean refugees and treating victims of political violence as economic migrants. By sending refugees back to persecution, Human Rights Watch has asserted that South Africa is violating the refugee convention and international law. [25]
Anti-homelessness legislation can take two forms: legislation that aims to help and re-house homeless people; and legislation that is intended to send homeless people to homeless shelters compulsorily, or to criminalize homelessness and begging.
Homeless rights activists hold a rally outside pm the U.S. Supreme Court on April 22 in Washington, DC. A Supreme Court ruling allows states and cities to pass laws that ban sleeping in public ...
Laws mandating arrests or financial penalties for camping outdoors or standing on a roadway criminalize poverty, advocates say, and that […] The post Jail time, fines become solutions as states ...
These laws affirm that homeless people have equal rights to medical care, free speech, free movement, voting, opportunities for employment, and privacy. [1] Legislation of this type is currently being debated at the state level in the United States. [1] Over 120 organizations in five different states have shown public support for a Homeless ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Friday anti-camping laws used by authorities in an Oregon city to stop homeless people from sleeping in public parks and public streets - a ...