As a European network with specific expertise in housing rights, we aim at disseminating information and doing advocacy work, but we would also like try to influence national law and practices in Europe that are not in line with international and human rights standards supporting strategic litigation.
What is strategic litigation?
Strategic litigation is understood as direct engagement with cases, third party interventions, support to lawyers (both formal and informal), capacity development, exchange of legal information, knowledge sharing, guidance and statements of supporting evidence.
Housing Rights Watch supports and promotes strategic litigation at a number of levels:
- Assisting legal practitioners with litigation before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) by providing informal support on legal argumentation via our network;
- Submitting collective complaints to the European Committee of Social Rights;
- Monitoring the execution and implementation of relevant judgments before UN bodies and European Courts;
- FEANTSA is participating in a Monitoring group of civil society organisations to follow up Spain’s response to ESCR Commitee recommendations on the failure to provide alternative housing to a family evicted from its home.
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