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.
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).
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.
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:
This article was first published in OpenGlobalRights (Open Democracy)
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.
