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Lack of adequate housing has long-term deleterious effects, including severe psychological impacts on children. Children suffer the most from forced evictions and displacement, which often result in loss of education, and in the absence of adequate rehabilitation, homelessness. Street children, in particular, face extreme conditions of violence, abuse, harsh weather conditions, injury, malnutrition, exploitation, and lack of security.

HLRN has worked with child rights groups in raising the issue of children’s right to adequate housing, and contributing to its in State reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). We have also contributed to workshops and training activities on the subject in the cases of Nepal, India and Bhutanese refugees.