Previous Events
Inclusive Social Policies to Achieve Gender Equality, Women Empowerment and End Homelessness
March 13, 2025
This parallel event will explored how inclusive social policies can address the intersection of homelessness and the feminization of poverty, emphasizing that doing so is crucial to achieve the Beijing Platform for Action’s goals.
State of Homelessness: Local Solutions to Global Homelessness | In observance of Urban October and World Homeless Day 2024
October 10, 2024
In this webinar, the panel identified strategies working at the local level to alleviate homelessness and protect the human rights of people experiencing homelessness.
Inclusive Social Policies and Poverty Eradication: Key to Ending Homelessness and Achieving the 2030 Agenda
February 8, 2024
In this virtual High-Level Political Forum parallel event, we will be joined by experts who will share insights about their work with homelessness data collection and provide recommendations on how Member States can coordinate their efforts with civil society organizations (CSO) or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community to collect and report homelessness data.
A future we want: A home for all | Parallel Event to United Nations General Assembly 78th Session/ Sustainable Development Summit/Urban October
October 5, 2023
The goal of this event was to address the intersectionality of homelessness by reflecting on General Assembly Resolution 76/133 (2022) and the Secretary General’s first ever report on Homelessness A/78/236. The panel discussion provided an opportunity for persons experiencing homelessness and civil society as well as Member States along with other experts to identify the progress that has been made and the challenges that remain as the UN brings into focus the complex issue of homelessness with a view to achieving a future in which every person experiences the dignity and human right of a safe, habitable, affordable, secure home.
Ending Global Homelessness through Data-Driven Policy Solutions: United Nations High-Level Political Forum Virtual Side Event
July 13, 2023
The UN NGO Working Group to End Homelessness (WGEH) is hosted a virtual panel discussion and question-and-answer (Q&A) session as a virtual side event to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum (HLPF). The discussion focused on raising awareness about homelessness, highlighting the need for better data, and encouraging the adoption of effective data collection and reporting methods at the local, national, and global levels.
Unequal Access to Employment and Decent Work: The Case of Women in Africa & Latin America | Commission for Social Development (CSocD61) side event
February 9, 2023
In this webinar, practitioners discussed: challenges, opportunities, and solutions for productive employment and equal pay for women in formal and informal sectors; bridging the gap on gender equality in paid and unpaid work; recognizing women's contribution to housing, the economy, and the environment; women's land and habitat rights and inclusive, resilient, and sustainable recovery.
Collaborating for Global Homelessness Definition & Measurement | World Homeless Day 2022
October 10, 2022
In this webinar, we will discuss how policymakers, practitioners, and people with the lived experience of homelessness can work together to use data to inform the development of international homelessness policy, focused on definition and disaggregated measurement.
For Indigenous People, Preserving “Home,” Culture and Community is a Human Right | UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - parallel event
May 3, 2022
Practitioners and advocates presented the challenges of homelessness among the Indigenous people of Paraguay, Colombia, and Chile, pointing to significant gaps in legislation and administrative practice in accessing rights and continued exclusion, marginalization, and dispossession.
Climate Change: Multiple Risks for Homeless Women and Girls | CSW66 Parallel Event
March 21, 2022
During this event, a panel, moderated by Jean Quinn — Executive Director of UNANIMA International and Chair of the UN Working Group to End Homelessness, discussed the ways that their work supports women and girls experiencing homelessness due to and/or during climate crises.
CSocD60 | End Homelessness & Poverty to Achieve Inclusive Recovery & Dignity for All Through the SDGs
February 15, 2022
This United Nations Commission for Social Development 60th Session side event intends to highlight the role of government leaders and civil society organizations in promoting housing solutions that are inclusive and capture the needs of the people it targets, which should not compromise their social well-being and dignity.
The State of Homelessness: Local Solutions to Global Homelessness
Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 9:00 to 10:30 AM (Eastern/New York)
Register here: https://depaul.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Blf5VZxvQCy7RXXNQ5FQ5w
We will be joined by panelists from We will be joined by panelists from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the Social Housing Department in Odense, Denmark, Y-Säätiö (The Y-Foundation), and WGEH.
This event during Urban October and on the commemoration of World Homeless Day, will identify strategies that are working at the local level to alleviate homelessness and protect the human rights of people experiencing homelessness.
Homelessness is a global problem and involves nearly ¼ of the world’s population. Homelessness encompasses people living without accommodation, people living in temporary or crisis accommodation and people living in inadequate and insecure housing. It sits at the intersection of public health, housing affordability, domestic violence, mental illness, substance misuse, climate change and natural disasters, urbanization, racial and gender discrimination, unemployment, political conflicts, migration and land rights. Member states are looking at policies and programs to address this form of poverty as we advance toward the 2nd World Social Summit in 2025.
Climate Change: Multiple Risks for Homeless Women and Girls
Climate change may be the most important global human rights crisis of our time. Homeless people, who are already among the most vulnerable in societies, are disproportionately impacted as they have fewer resources. Register here: https://depaul.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkfumvqDsrE92yU3irDrHfid7ZzpvSaQIr
Panelists
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing
Leilani Farha, Global Director of The Shift
Dr. Mininim Oseji, Immediate Past National President of the Medical Women's Association of Nigeria (MWAN)
Dr. Jennifer Bhuiyan, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at St. John’s University
Sr. Aisha Kavalakattu, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Nepal
Dana Marlowe and Diamond Cotton — I Support the Girls
United Nations Commission for Social Development 60th Session Side Event
‘End Homelessness, Hunger, and Poverty to Achieve Inclusive Recovery and Dignity for All Through the SDGs’ intends to highlight the role of government leaders and civil society organizations in promoting housing solutions that are inclusive and capture the needs of the people it targets, which should not compromise their social well-being and dignity.