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ACLU Attorney Sandra Park testifies before United Nations Special Rapporteur

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On November 8, 2009, ACLU Attorney Sandra Park testified before the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Ms. Raquel Rolnick, during the National Town Hall Forum she held in Washington, DC at the conclusion of her 18-day official mission to the United States to investigate housing rights violations. This was the first official visit to the U.S by a U.N. Special Rapporteur on Housing. Sandra Park, Staff Attorney at the ACLU Womens Rights Project, testified about the housing rights of domestic violence survivors.

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