Date of the decision: 18 February 2021
Country: Spain
Jurisdiction: Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
English
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El Goumari and Tidli (Communication No. 85/2018) [18 February 2021]
Housing Rights Watch Meeting on Evictions in a Covid 19 Landscape
On 29th January 2021, Housing Rights Watch held a thematic meeting about evictions in a Covid 19 landscape.
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Chornenko v. Ukraine (Application no. 59660/09) [14.01.2021]
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
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Papachela and Amazon S.A. v. Greece (Application no. 12929/18) [03.12.2020]
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
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Why the UK Needs to U-Turn on its Decision to Evict Asylum Seekers
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”.
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Webinar Preventing Homelessness by Preventing Evictions
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.
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Levchuk v. Ukraine (Application no. 17496/19) [03.09.2020]
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.
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Rosario Gómez-Limón Pardo v. Spain (Communication No. 52/2018) [05.03.2020]
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.
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Fifth Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe 2020.
FEANTSA and the Fondation Abbé Pierre recently launched the Fifth Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe 2020.
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COVID-19 and the Growing Threat of Evictions in the UK
Mark Jordan
Lecturer of Land Law within Southampton Law School at the University of Southampton
Introduction
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