This report sets out to document the criminalization of homelessness in Canada by exploring the relationship between homeless persons – in particular, street youth - and law enforcement officials (both the police and private security). Drawing from over 240 interviews with street youth in Toronto in 2009, as well as a review of official statistics on Ontario Safe Streets Act tickets in Toronto over the past 11 years, we explore the ways in which homelessness has been criminalized through a law and order agenda.

"Being homeless is not a crime!" Call for action: International solidarity with homeless people in Hungary

We invite our friends all over the world to join our struggle against the criminalisation of homelessness in Hungary.

We invite our friends all over the world to join our struggle against the criminalisation of homelessness in Hungary.

I Believe in Human Rights

By Freek Spinnewijn, Director of FEANTSA 

I believe in human rights. I even believe in human rights for people experiencing homelessness. This has to be said, because in many countries, States, and cities, the human rights of people experiencing homelessness are at worst violated, and most often ignored.