NLCHP uses international bodies to hold the U.S. to accountable to its legal obligations to fulfill the right to housing and ensure other rights to poor and homeless persons on a basis of non-discrimination.   We then bring beneficial language from the international level back into our domestic advocacy, using this language in the courts, in policy advocacy, and in the streets. We do this by attending treaty committee hearings, creating and filing our own reports called "shadow reports" to treaty committees, communicating our human rights concerns with U.N. experts called Special Rapporteurs , by playing an active role in regional bodies, including the Inter-American Commission, and participating in hearings with other international experts and bodies. Using International Bodies is an integral part of our Current Campaigns.

                      
      
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(L to R) Kali Akuno - People's Hurricane Relief Fund, Monique Harden - Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, Miloon Kothari - Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, and Eric Tars - NLCHP Human Rights Attorney discussing the destruction of public housing in New Orleans (Geneva, February 20, 2008); Special Rapporteur on Racial Discrmination Doudou Diene and Associate Human Rights Officer Renato Mariani at Public Hearing on Racism in Anacostia, Washington DC June 5, 2008; Rally at the Inter-American Hearing on Adequate Housing on March 4, 2005 in Washington, D.C.