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FEANTSA director blogs on USICH site about homelessness and human rights
By Freek Spinnewijn, Director of FEANTSA
I believe in human rights. I even believe in human rights for people experiencing homelessness. This has to be said, because in many countries, States, and cities, the human rights of people experiencing homelessness are at worst violated, and most often ignored.
The Role of the University in Promoting Access to Legal Rights for People Living in Social Exclusion - The Experience from the "dret al dret" Project, Mean Streets: Chapter 11
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Penalisation of Homelessness in Access to Social Housing and Shelters, Mean Streets: Chapter 6
Mean Streets: Penalisation of Homelessness in Access to Social Housing and Shelters
CO-WRITTEN BY
- Dr Padraic Kenna, National University of Ireland, Galway
- Marc Uhry, Fondation Abbé Pierre Rhone-Alpes, Lyon, France
- Jamie Burton, Doughty Street Chambers, London, UK
- Samara Jones, FEANTSA, Brussels, Belgium
- Guillem Fernàndez Evangelista, Autonomous University of Barcelona (IGOP), Catalonia, Spain
Penalising Homelessness, Mean Streets: Chapter 2
Mean Streets: Chapter 2
Penalising Homelessness
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Applying a Human Rights – Based Approach to Homelessness – from Theory to Practice, Mean Streets: Chapter 1
Mean Streets: Chapter 1
Applying a Human Rights – Based Approach to Homelessness – from Theory to Practice
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Winterstein and Others v. France (application no. 27013/07) [17.10.2013]
Date of the decision: 17/10/2013
Jurisdiction: Council of Europe –European Court of Human Rights
Country: France
Subject: Violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) in conjunction with Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination).
State of Housing Rights
The right to housing is guaranteed in both the Swedish Constitution and by law. The Constitution ensures that it shall be incumbent upon the public administration to secure, inter alia, the right to housing.
Sweden ratified the Revised European Social Charter on 29/05/1998, accepting 83 of the Revised Charter’s 98 paragraphs, including the Article 31 on the right to housing. It ratified the Additional Protocol providing for a system of collective complaints on 29/05/1998. It has not yet made a declaration enabling national NGOs to submit complaints.