Housing Rights Seminar

4 December 2015

11:00 to 4:00

 
Doughty Street Chambers
53-54 Doughty St, London WC1N 2LS
 

Introduction by Samara Jones, FEANTSA Policy Officer, and Freek Spinnewijn, FEANTSA Director (Belgium)

Chair by Jamie Burton, Just Fair Chair/Doughty Street Chambers Barrister (UK)

Program

• Housing and the migrant crisis in Europe

       _ "European migrants homelessness in United Kingdom" by Matthew Downie, Crisis UK Director of Policy & External Affairs (UK)

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       _ "3 ideas from the “Calais jungle” perspective" by Marc Uhry, Fondation Abbé Pierre Europe (France)

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• Social assistance and free movement by Adrian Berry, Garden Court Chambers Barrister (UK)

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• Positive Obligations on Housing Rights by Dovile Gailiute, Mykolas Romeris University Vilnius (Lithuania)

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• Collective Complaint case: International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) v. Ireland (Complaint no. 110/2014) by Mark Jordan, University of Southampton (UK)

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• Assisting the European Union to implement the Charter of Fundamental Rights by Padraic Kenna, NUI Galway (Ireland)

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