#ICYMI: November’s collection of Right to Sleep news

November highlighted the very real civil and human rights issues in SHC’s Right to Sleep News supplement. Not only are the homeless losing sleep while living on the street, but other people are having sleep stolen from them, and many of them are gainfully employed. Veteran status, pollution impacts, undertreated disorders and disabilities, displaced disaster victims, and unsustainable employer demands mark chief reasons why some people are cheated of an opportunity to sleep nearly every night of their lives.

In November, SHC gave the spotlight to a confounding social problem: the civil and human right to sleep. The problem of having restrictions imposed on one’s sleep aren’t limited to the homeless, by the way. Here’s a recap of Right to Sleep News, #ICYMI (in case you missed it):

• Wordless Wednesday: Local “lodging law” keeps homeless from sleeping… period (Nov 1)
• “The right to sleep”: The biggest civil & human rights problem you’ve never heard of (Nov 2)
• Wordless Wednesday: Sign this vet-sponsored petition demanding labor standards that prioritize sleep (Nov 8)
• Sleep News Special Report || Veterans Day Edition: Our vets need their sleep! (Nov 11)
• Wordless Wednesday: Racial prejudice violates many Americans’ Right to Sleep (Nov 15)
• The Right to Sleep: Our Pinterest board exposes lost sleep as a civil rights issue (Nov 19)
• You asked SHC… about sleeping rough (Nov 25)
• Wordless Wednesday: Why is it okay for doctors to work without sleep for 24 hours? (Nov 29)
• Sleep News Special Report || A month’s worth of Homeless ‘Right To Sleep’ coverage (Dec 1)

Other posts and links referencing Right to Sleep News

Please note other relevant posts on the subject at SHC that you might have missed prior to the November series:

• Wordless Wednesday: Sleep Hygiene, Post-Hurricane (Sept 13)
• Surviving Harvey: Nobody actually sleeps through a hurricane (Aug 30)
• Mother’s Day should NOT be the only day Mom gets to sleep (May 14)
• Life-saving sleep: why our helping professionals need their Zzz (Jan 28)
• Parenthood: Blame sleep deprivation for making it the hardest job in the world (Jan 19)
• Wordless Wednesday: Odd hours, overtime and work-related sleep deprivation (Jan 18)
• Sleep deprivation and the workplace: America, our military has a sleep problem (Jan 16)
• Sleep deprivation in the workplace: Recent media links (Jan 13)