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UN report: San Francisco's 'cruel and inhuman' homelessness crisis is a human rights violation
Business Insider ^ | October 30, 2018 | Aria Bendix

Posted on 11/04/2018 7:56:28 AM PST by lowbridge

The Bay Area's "cruel and inhuman" conditions for homeless residents violate a number of human rights, according to a reportwritten by United Nations Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha.

Farha revealed her findings before the UN General Assembly two weeks ago, after previously reporting that homeless residents in San Francisco and Oakland had been denied "access to water, sanitation and health services, and other basic necessities."

In January, she went on a fact-finding mission to assess the state of the Bay Area's homeless encampments, which are teeming with trash, feces, and discarded needles. In Oakland, Farha witnessed rats digging through the mud and families camped outside in the cold.

These harrowing conditions prompted her togroup San Francisco alongside cities likeMumbai and Delhi, which are known for some of the poorest and dirtiest neighborhoods in the world. In a statement to the East Bay Express, Farha compared the Oakland campsto a low-income dwelling in Mexico City that had no running water and was forced to steal electricity.

It's not the first time these associations have been drawn. Earlier this year, an NBC Bay Area investigation found that the streets of downtown San Francisco were dirtier than slums in Brazil, Kenya, and India.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; botox; california; delhi; diannefeinstein; election2018; election2020; leilanifarha; mumbai; nancypelosi; richardcblum; sanfrancisco; sanfrannan; securitycouncil; siliconvalley; unitednations; untiednations; whiteprivilege
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1 posted on 11/04/2018 7:56:28 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Here’s the “scoop” on Leilani:

https://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/housing/pages/leilanifarha.aspx

Another F*cking Canadian. We need to close our northern border because the Canadian $hit is as bad, of not worse than the Mexican!


2 posted on 11/04/2018 8:00:38 AM PST by vette6387
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To: lowbridge

UN => UM (United Muslims). Don.’t hear them condemning Muslims form slaughtering Christians. Beware Agenda 2030.


3 posted on 11/04/2018 8:02:04 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: lowbridge

San Francisco created the mess — they can clean it up!
OR
If the UN is so concerned, it can send in the Blue Hats to clean it up!


4 posted on 11/04/2018 8:06:57 AM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: lowbridge

Maybe SF will listen because it’s their beloved UN....


5 posted on 11/04/2018 8:07:33 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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To: lowbridge

San Fransicko gives super high welfare benefits of all types including free medical care. This attracts those who will not work for a living — by the thousands. But, there’s no law saying they have to all go there or stay there. There’s no human rights violation unless it’s givjng welfare benefits to able people who do not want to work. Thereby, incentivizing them to destroy their lives in San Fransicko. That can be seen as a big human rights violation - the cure will be to stop giving welfare to people who can work


6 posted on 11/04/2018 8:09:54 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: lowbridge

Maybe the UN should move to San Francisco


7 posted on 11/04/2018 8:19:06 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: vette6387
another bra size IQ heard from...
8 posted on 11/04/2018 8:22:59 AM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: lowbridge

Rights...... why this hue and cry about rights?

By abrogating the duty of personal responsibility, rights are surrendered

Although the home of many billionaires and lots of wealth, San Farancisco has surrendered to those who refuse to do their duty to themselves and take up the responsibility for their own lives.

Outsiders are not allowed to whine about settled decisions made by those who live there


9 posted on 11/04/2018 8:31:08 AM PST by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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10 posted on 11/04/2018 8:52:55 AM PST by conservativeimage (Locked, loaded, ready to volunteer.)
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To: lowbridge

As bad as SF is, the UN had best go after every Indian sub-continent and African craphole first. They are far worse and have been for far longer.

It does not break my heart, however, that SF, CA, and their fascist democrat rulers have been lumped with the worst of the world’s worst. Democrat socialist policies at their best.


11 posted on 11/04/2018 9:00:42 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: faithhopecharity
That can be seen as a big human rights violation - the cure will be to stop giving welfare to people who can work

A marginal supporter of the UN here, but...
...in light of this most alarming, disgusting, embarrassing (etc., etc.) finding by the world's UN, Trump ought to move immediately against the City and County of San Francisco and the State of California to correct the matter.

I say this as a departed native of CA and happy resident a few decades ago of SF. - and, as you suggest, the answer is not to throw more money at the problem.

12 posted on 11/04/2018 9:12:08 AM PST by frog in a pot (We will survive as a nation - but only if we bravely and effectively defend the Constitution.)
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To: lowbridge
The problem in San Francisco is that the homeless have too many rights, not too few
13 posted on 11/04/2018 9:18:22 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: lowbridge
The UN is probably insisting that San Francisco's homeless problem is caused by evil conservatives who don't live there...and that this group should thus be taxed more to fix it.

I mean, that's exactly the argument San Francisco's Left invites them in to support.

14 posted on 11/04/2018 9:21:01 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: lowbridge
Unconstrained drug abuse = fetid squalor

3rd world craphole or SAn Diego, CA?

Drug use is a victimless crime? Not if you live in Cal.

15 posted on 11/04/2018 9:39:08 AM PST by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: lowbridge

I am sure this globalist POS enjoyed her stay in a 5-star luxury hotel while she prepared her report.


16 posted on 11/04/2018 10:15:01 AM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: lowbridge

San Francisco is a sanctuary city. We’re told that Mexicans come here to jobs Americans don’t want to do.

Clearly that is not true.

Just an observation, without regard for the failure of the city to serve its residents effectively.


17 posted on 11/04/2018 10:15:28 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: faithhopecharity

Wifey has been medical social worker for Dept of public health in SF for 20 years
This I can tell you. SF is the most tolerant liberal city in the world that gives away the store to all. Homeless. Illegal. Druggie. You name it
This chicks whining falls very flat


18 posted on 11/04/2018 11:10:31 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: lowbridge

Progressivism always turns out shi@.


19 posted on 11/04/2018 1:44:20 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
After we've won on Tuesday, time to dump the EU and the UN.

20 posted on 11/04/2018 2:15:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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