Children living inside the gymnasium Roquepine occupied by dozens homeless families helped by Right of Housing group DAL, play during the visit of Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, as part of a ten day visit in France to examine housing rights and homelessness, in Paris, France, April 10, 2019. Picture taken April 10, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
PARIS (Reuters) - France is guilty of human rights abuses of homeless people and laws guaranteeing a home for all fail to protect the most vulnerable, a U.N. Special Rapporteur said on Friday.
France, like most European countries, has seen a rise in homelessness in the past decade, fuelled by fallout from the global financial crisis and an influx of migrants from Africa and the Middle East.
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