Press Release
A press conference with tenants and supporting organisations took place Monday, 23 October 11 am at The Witness Gallery, The GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.
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Collective complaint: Ireland has failed to provide adequate housing conditions on local authority estates
El Derecho a una vivienda digna en España. Crisis residencial: Origen, consecuencias y respuesta de los poderes públicos.
The UN Special Rapporteur examines the right to housing of persons with disabilities in new report
In the report, the Special Rapporteur examines the right to housing of persons with disabilities. She provides an overview of their diverse housing circumstances — from institutionalization, homelessness and grossly inadequate housing to experiences of stigmatization and exclusion — linked to a broad range of impairments, including psychosocial, physical, sensorial and intellectual, as well as perceived impairments. She questions why those widespread human rights violations have not been addressed as a priority by States or the international community.
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The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities adopts concluding observations on UK report
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities adopted Concluding Observations and Recommendations on report of the United Kingdom on the implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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Call for Right to Housing to be enshrined in the Irish Constitution
Op Ed by Niamh Randall, Head of Policy and Communications with the Simon Communities of Ireland and Senator Colette Kelleher.
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The DALO law: a step towards making the right to housing a reality
Julie CLAUZIER, Jurislogement
Jurislogement is a national network of lawyers, experts in the right to housing
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M.B.D. and others v. Spain (Communication No. 5/2015) [5.07.2017]
Date of the decision: 5 July 2017
Jurisdiction: UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Country: Spain
Subject: Evictions without suitable alternative accommodation (tenants)
The Committee urged Spain to:
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The DALO Law is 10 years old
On 5 March 2007, the French parliament unanimously adopted a law making the right to housing enforceable. Known as the DALO law, this text obliges the French State to move away from an obligation of diligence towards a performance obligation in ensuring access to housing for all.
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Protecting the Right to Housing in England: A Context of Crisis
Just Fair, ‘Protecting the Right to Housing in England: A Context of Crisis’ (London, Just Fair, 2015),
Dr. Jessie Hohmann
BA, LLB, LLM, PhD. Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary, University of London.
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The Shift: from housing as a commodity to housing as home and a human right
In June 2017 FEANTSA participated in a strategic meeting in Ottawa organized by the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha. The goal of the gathering was to discuss the next steps of “The Shift”, a global campaign for the right to housing launched at the Habitat III Summit in Quito in October 2016.
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