CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS

Spain: Austerity driving poverty, growing inequality and human rights deterioration

REPORT BY NILS MUIŽNIEKS

COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE

FOLLOWING HIS VISIT TO HUNGARY FROM 1 TO 4 JULY 2014

Decided on 16 January 2014

Relevant Articles: Article 41 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

In 2014, the United States continues to face an affordable housing crisis. Homelessness was already a national crisis prior to the foreclosure crisis and economic recession. An estimated 2.5 to 3.5 million men, women, and children were experiencing homelessness each year, including a total of 1.35 million children, and over a million people working full or part-time but unable to pay for housing. The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) has written a report card that assesses the current level of U.S.

FEANTSA has won its collective Collective Complaint against The Netherlands. First lodged with the Council of Europe in July 2012, the Collective Complaint (no. 86/2012) against the Netherlands alleged iolations of several rights under the Revised European Social Charter. Today, the European Committee for Social Rights lifted the embargo on the final decision in this case.

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By Marc Uhry , Fondation Abbé Pierre and Claire Zoccali, Lyon Bar

By Mariann Dósa and Éva Tessza Udvarhelyi , A Város Mindenkié (The City is for All),
Budapest, Hungary
avarosmindenkie@gmail.com

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Imagine a world where it is illegal to sit down. Could you survive if there were no place you were allowed to fall asleep, to store your belongings, or to stand still? For most of us, these scenarios seem unrealistic to the point of being ludicrous. But, for homeless people across America, these circumstances are an ordinary part of daily life.

From The Guardian

Excerpt:Bedroom tax bites as low-income tenants choose between 'heat or eat'