Date of the decision: 24 of May 2018
Jurisdiction: European Court of Human rights
Country: France
Subject: The case concerned the accommodation arrangements for a family – comprising a mother and her three young children – while they were waiting to submit their asylum application.
The Court found that the applicants had been provided with night-time accommodation in a hostel financed from public funds and that two of the children had attended nursery school. In addition, the applicants had also received publicly-funded medical care and had been assisted by nongovernmental organisations. Lastly, there was a likelihood that their situation would improve.
The Court therefore held that the applicants had been able to attend to their most basic needs and that the French authorities had not been indifferent to their fate. The level of severity required for their situation to fall within Article 3 had not been reached.
Legal basis: No violation of Article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights,and declared inadmissible the complaint alleging a violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life).
To learn more: http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-183130 (Only In French)
English
Jurisdiction:
Article 3 - Prohibition of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment
Article 8 - Right to respect for private and family life
Subject:
case law
Right to housing
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