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Homelessness in Egypt is a significant social issue affecting some 12 million people in the country. Egypt has over 1,200 areas designated for irregular dwellings that do not conform to standard building laws, allowing homeless people to build shacks and other shelters for themselves.
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.
Homelessness in France Germany: 262,600 2022 [33] 31.4 Homelessness in Germany Ghana: 100,000 2020 [34] 32.9 Greece: 40,000 2016 [35] 37.1 Homelessness in Greece Grenada: 68 2011 6.4 6.4 [36] Homeless in national census seems to mean unsheltered. High variance after hurricanes. Guatemala: 475,000 2012 [37] 315 Haiti: 310,000 2024 [38] 261 ...
Human rights in Egypt are guaranteed by the Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt under the various articles of Chapter 3. The country is also a party to numerous international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
The Homeless Bill of Rights (also Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Acts of Living bill) refers to legislation protecting the civil and human rights of homeless people. These laws affirm that homeless people have equal rights to medical care, free speech, free movement, voting, opportunities for employment, and privacy. [1]
To that end, a 2021 report by the National Homelessness Law Center found that 48 states have laws criminalizing homelessness such as fines for sleeping on benches, sidewalks, or in public parks.
This is a list of the governorates of Egypt by Human Development Index as of 2024 with data for the year 2022. [1] Rank Governorate HDI (2022) High human development 1
"No one should have to be homeless – adequate housing is a right", 2007; Interpretation and application of Article 31 of RESC//Digest of the Case Law of the European Committee on Social Rights, 2008. pp. 169–173, 349—355; Right to Housing Geneva: CETIM, 2007. Housing is a human right: How Finland is eradicating homelessness.