Author: Cezara David
Anti-discrimination Programme Manager
Centre for Legal Resources (CLR)[i]
“He threw us out like animals, telling us that ‘if you don't take your things out of the house now, you can't go in after them’. So many police and gendarmes came with dogs."
Date of the decision: 18 February 2021
Country: Spain
Jurisdiction: Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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
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
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”.
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.
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.
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.
FEANTSA and the Fondation Abbé Pierre recently launched the Fifth Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe 2020.
