Housing Rights Watch Meeting on Evictions in a Covid 19 Landscape
Chornenko v. Ukraine (Application no. 59660/09) [14.01.2021]
Language: English
Date of the decision: 14 January 2021
Country: Ukraine
Jurisdiction: European 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
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),
Subject: Inaction of State in response to squatting of hotel by migrants: violation of property rights under Convention
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”.
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.
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)
Subject: Interference with the right to a home may be necessary in order to protect the rights of the others.
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.
Fifth Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe 2020.
FEANTSA and the Fondation Abbé Pierre recently launched the Fifth Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe 2020.
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
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.