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New Trailer Released for Upcoming Documentary on UN Housing Mission to United States

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Today the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights, along with the NESRI and Housing is a Human Right released a new trailer for an upcoming documentary about the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing’s first official fact finding mission to the United States in the Fall of 2009. This trailer was produced for a NESRI and the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions organized event today entitled “The Housing Rights Situation in the US” which took place at the UN Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Earlier today the Special Rapporteur presented the UN Human Rights Council her report based on her mission to the US. View a webcast of this presentation (You will need to scroll down on the page to the 10th Plenary Meeting from 12:00 – 15:00. Once the webcast starts, she presents her US report at 8:12.) The trailer and documentary video was shot by volunteer videographers, audio recorders and photographers from around the US and is being edited by a team of volunteer video editors based in New York City.