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Complaint slams Canada for failing human rights in Downtown Eastside

While the deteriorating Downtown Eastside has been debated repeatedly during this year's municipal campaign, Canada's poorest urban postal code hasn't garnered much press in the federal election -- beyond a predictable tussle over Insite. In what could be a hearty nudge to remind the country about the federal government's responsibility to the neighbourhood, the Pivot Legal Society made a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review that claims "Canada is failing to meet key international obligations on the issue of housing and homelessness in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside."

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