by Cecilia Forrestal
Community Action Network
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FIDH v Ireland: Reflections on Taking a Collective Complaint
UK: Supreme Court considers the affordability of accommodation in determining whether a person became “intentionally homeless”
A woman who spent benefits on feeding her children rather than paying rent has a won a court case against the Birmingham council that declared her intentionally homeless after she fell into arrears. The case sets precedent in cases of people unable to afford rent.
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Effective International Protection of Social Rights of Polish Nationals. A Contribution to the Debate
Adam Ploszka, Ph.D.
Faculty of Law and Administration University of Warsaw
Expert Commission on Combatting Homelessness attached to the Commissioner for Human Rights of Poland
Summary:
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To Luxembourg Instead Of Strasbourg?
To Luxembourg Instead Of Strasbourg?
A report on the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the protection of human rights
Warsaw, September 2018
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Collective complaint against Greece for non compliance with the right to housing
The International Commission of Jurists and the European Council for Refugees and Exiles lodged a collective complaint against Greece before the European Committee on Social Rights for violations of migrant and asylum-seeking children’s rights, both with families and unaccompanied, under the revised European Social Charter on several accounts.
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UN Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha’s official visit to France
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Access to justice for the right to housing in Spain: lights and shadows onto a disputed right
Sonia Olea Ferreras.
Advocacy Team – Cáritas Española
1.Real figures to date:
In Spain, human rights-based public policy about housing does not exist and housing is seen as an economic investment. Current data gives us an idea of the hundreds of thousands of people who are struggling to access and maintain a house:
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2018 Follow-up to decisions on the merits of collective complaints by the European Committee of Social Rights
The European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) published on 24th January 2019 its findings 2018 on the follow-up given by 8 States (Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal) to decisions in the collective complaints procedure.
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Homelessness and disabilities: the impact of recent Human Rights developments in Policy and Practice
Over the years there has been a shift in focus from the medical model of disability that used to focus on an individual’s impairments to the social model of disability, which includes an understanding of systemic barriers, negative attitudes and exclusion by society that persons with disabilities encounter. According to this model, it is society that is the contributory factor in disabling people.
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Participation in 7th Collaborative Platform on Social and Economic Rights meeting
On 28th November, FEANTSA took part in the 7th meeting of the Collaborative Platform on Social and Economic Rights.The platform brings together the Council of Europe, FRA, the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI) and the European network of Equality Bodies (EQUINET).
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