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Housing Rights Watch Meeting on Evictions in a Covid 19 Landscape

 
On 29th January 2021, Housing Rights Watch held a thematic meeting about evictions in a Covid 19 landscape. 
 
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Chornenko v. Ukraine (Application no. 59660/09) [14.01.2021]

Language: English

Date of the decision: 14 January 2021

Country: Ukraine

JurisdictionEuropean Court of Human Rights (Chamber judgment)

Legal basis: Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Right to respect for private and family life)

Subject: Eviction

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Papachela and Amazon S.A. v. Greece (Application no. 12929/18) [03.12.2020]

Language: English

Date of the decision: 3 December 2020

Country: Greece

Jurisdiction: European Court of Human Rights

Legal Basis: Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 of European Convention on Human Rights(Protection of property), 

SubjectInaction of State in response to squatting of hotel by migrants: violation of property rights under Convention

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Why the UK Needs to U-Turn on its Decision to Evict Asylum Seekers

As the UK gets ready to face off with the triple threat of a cold winter, a global pandemic and a no-deal Brexit, the government is inundated with internal crises that challenge the government’s ability to remain true to its twin promises of “shielding the vulnerable” and “leveling up the country”.

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Webinar Preventing Homelessness by Preventing Evictions

During the FEANTSA Conference week, on October 5, Maria J. Aldanas, as coordinator of Housing Rights Watch, co-organised and moderated a webinar about prevention of evictions which tried to take up some of the main challenges and solutions that Housing Rights Watch had detected at European level.

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Levchuk v. Ukraine (Application no. 17496/19) [03.09.2020]

Date of the decision: 3 September 2020

Country: Ukraine

Jurisdiction: European Court of Human Rights

Legal Basis: Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life and the home) 

SubjectInterference with the right to a home may be necessary in order to protect the rights of the others. 

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Rosario Gómez-Limón Pardo v. Spain (Communication No. 52/2018) [05.03.2020]

Date of decision: 5 March 2020

Jurisdiction:  UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Country: Spain

Legal basis: Violation of the Right to adequate housing, Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:

Subject: Eviction from rented property without alternative accommodation.

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Fifth Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe 2020.

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COVID-19 and the Growing Threat of Evictions in the UK

 

Mark Jordan

Lecturer of Land Law within Southampton Law School at the University of Southampton

 

Introduction

 

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Amnesty International filed a Collective complaint on the housing situation of Roma in Italy

Amnesty International filed a complaint before European Committee of Social Rights in response to the ongoing scandal of the housing situation of Roma in Italy, Amnesty International filed a complaint on 18 March 2019 with the European Committee of Social Rights. The complaint is the first ever to be filed by Amnesty International under the Committee’s collective complaints procedure.

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