Mark Jordan
Lecturer of Land Law within Southampton Law School at the University of Southampton
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COVID-19 and the Growing Threat of Evictions in the UK
Amnesty International filed a Collective complaint on the housing situation of Roma in Italy
Amnesty International filed a complaint before European Committee of Social Rights in response to the ongoing scandal of the housing situation of Roma in Italy, Amnesty International filed a complaint on 18 March 2019 with the European Committee of Social Rights. The complaint is the first ever to be filed by Amnesty International under the Committee’s collective complaints procedure.
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P.H. and Others v. Italy (application no. 25838/19) [20.05.2019]
Date of the decision: May 20th 2019
Country: Italy
Jurisdiction: European Court of Human Rights
Legal Basis: Interim measure (Rule 39 of the Rules of Court).
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UK Government decided to scrap unjustified evictions pressured by NGOs
Until now, in England and Wales, landlords have been entitled by law to claim their property back and therefore evict their tenants, without providing a reason. These unjustified evictions, with just two months’ notice, are so called Section 21 Evictions as per reference to the Section 21 of the Housing Act of 1988.
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Expert meeting on strategic litigation on housing rights in Spain
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European Roma and Travellers Forum (ERTF) v. France (No. 119/2015) [05.12.2017]
Date of the decision: Decision on the merits on 5 December 2017.
Jurisdiction: Council of Europe – European Committee of Social Rights, Collective Complaint mechanism
Country: France
Subject:
The ERTF alleges that the situation in France amounts to a violation of several rights of the Charter because of:
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Spain: the ESCR Committee concerned that austerity measures have undermined the right to housing
The UN Committee on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has published its findings on the countries it examined during its March 2018 session in Geneva. The findings cover how Spain is doing with regard to implementing the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, detailing positive developments, main areas of concern, and recommendations for action.
The Committee considered the sixth periodic report of Spain and at its 28th meeting, held on March 29, 2018, and adopted the concluding observations that follow:
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CESCR Ruling: eviction violated family’s human rights in Spain
Spain violated the right to housing of a family with young children, who were evicted from a rented room in a flat without being provided with alternative housing.
The independent experts, from the Geneva-based Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, issued their findings after considering a complaint by a couple, who were evicted from their Madrid home in 2013 with their children aged one and three.
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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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