Homelessness as a global human rights crisis that demands an urgent global response 2016, para. 43
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Homelessness among children and young people has reached critical proportions. Factors that push children into leaving home include parents' unemployment and poverty; family disintegration and parental abuse; parental drug and alcohol addictions; and being orphaned owing to HIV/AIDS, Ebola, armed conflict or natural disaster. Some families, unable to support children because of extreme poverty, abandon or send them to urban areas to work. Children raised in residential institutions often find themselves homeless when they reach the age at which institutional care ceases. Identified "pull" factors include "spatial freedom, financial independence, adventure, city glamour and street-based friendships or gangs".
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
Document type
Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
Topic(s)
Environment
Humanitarian
Poverty
Person(s) affected
Children
Families
Youth
Year
2016
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Housing, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/31/54, para. 43.