Decided on 16 December 2014
Relevant Articles: Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (against torture, and "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment") and Article 8 of the Convention (right to respect for their family life and/or their home)
Decided on 16 January 2014
Relevant Articles: Article 41 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Decided on 1 July 2014
Relevant Articles: Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Student: United States of America
In 2014, the United States continues to face an affordable housing crisis. Homelessness was already a national crisis prior to the foreclosure crisis and economic recession. An estimated 2.5 to 3.5 million men, women, and children were experiencing homelessness each year, including a total of 1.35 million children, and over a million people working full or part-time but unable to pay for housing. The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) has written a report card that assesses the current level of U.S.
GENEVA (16 December 2014) – A group of United Nations human rights experts today urged the Dutch Government to immediately provide homeless irregular migrants in the Netherlands with emergency assistance, such as food, clothing, and shelter (popularly called ‘bed, bath and bread’ in the country). The Netherlands refuses to provide emergency assistance to this group, despite repeated disapproval by international and regional human rights bodies.
In the case Ceesay Ceesay and Others v.
Frente a la modificación de la Ley Hipotecaria y la sentencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea (TJUE), desde el equipo jurídico de la PAH se ha generado un Kit de emergencia 2.0. Este Kit consta de un documento de instrucciones para los abogados de oficio y otro con el modelo de recurso de apelación en si.
Esta guía pretende servir de orientación para la defensa legal de personas inmersas en procesos de ejecución hipotecaria aun no finalizados, a los cuales les sea de aplicación el plazo de un mes (hasta el 8 de octubre de 2014)
What would happen if housing were enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? One activist’s inside account of the radical new fight to end homelessness
By Marc Uhry , Fondation Abbé Pierre and Claire Zoccali, Lyon Bar
