Friday 15 November 2019, (9:30 -17:00)
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Thematic Workshop: Protecting Vulnerable Tenants in The Private Rental Market
UN Special Rapporteur's report on Human rights-based housing strategies
The latest Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context was released on February 15.
Leilani Farha latest report provides governments with guidance on developing and implementing rights-based housing strategies.
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Evicted rights in Spain: no room of one’s own
Koldo Casla
Researcher on the right to housing, Amnesty International Spain.
This article was first published in OpenGlobalRights (Open Democracy)
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Conference in Tarragona 'Ensuring the effective exercise of the right to housing in the EU'
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Yordanova and Others v Bulgaria (Application No. 25446/06)
Date of the decision: September 24, 2012
Jurisdiction: Council of Europe – European Court of Human Rights
Country: Bulgaria
Subject: Violation of Article 8 - Right to respect for private and family life (Article 8-1 - Respect for family life Respect for home Respect for private life) (Conditional); Non-pecuniary damage - finding of violation sufficient; proportionality test; social housing; eviction; tenancy agreements.
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing - Mission to Portugal
In December 2016 two United Nations human rights experts visited Portugal and expressed concern about the impact of the economic crisis and the austerity measures on the enjoyment of the rights to housing, water and sanitation in this country.
At the end of a joint official visit to the country, UN Special Rapporteurs, Léo Heller and Leilani Farha, warned about the situation of people in vulnerable situations, including the “new poor”- those who have been pushed into poverty as a result of the austerity measures.
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Report on "Financialization of housing and the right to adequate housing" by the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing
Housing and real estate markets worldwide have been transformed by global capital markets and financial excess. Known as the financialization of housing, the phenomenon occurs when housing is treated as a commodity – a vehicle for wealth and investment rather than a social good.
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The Right to Rent Scheme: Landlords as Immigration Officers
Adrian Berry
Barrister at Garden Court Chambers
A shorter version of this article was first published for Legal Action magazine in the UK; thereafter expanded for his blog, Cosmopolis: Migration, Citizenship, and Free Movement
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Shrinking Social Housing Stocks as a Barrier to the Eradication of Homelessness: The Cases of Germany, Finland, the United Kingdom and Spain
Guillem Fernandez Evangelista
Institute of Government and Public Policy – Autonomous University of Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain
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Economic and social rights in the UK in 2016: A whole year under the UN spotlight and more is coming
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