BIHR to train HJ staff (May 2009)
As part of our ongoing drive to address the coercive methods used by the authorities against the homeless since the Spring of 2008, Housing Justice is to partner with the British Institute for Human Rights with the view to develop our staff's capacity to adopt a Human Rights perspective in our work on homelessness..
The partnership comes under BIHR's Human Rights and Poverty Project, which sees the organisation work with up to six london-based voluntary and community sector organisations working with and for people facing poverty or social injustice.
The project aims to:
- build awareness, skills and knowledge in human rights
- build awareness of how human rights can be used to influence a policy maker or public body to make changes
- identify a policy or practice that they would like to change
- develop and deliver influencing activities (campaigning, lobbying, advocacy) using key human rights
- measure progress or changes made through influencing activities
Related to the above partnership is our publication
Rough Sleeping: Compassion v. Coercion