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Meeting the moment: how the Race Equality Directive and the Danish “Ghetto” case require courts to fight modern racial discrimination
New Decisions on FEANTSA Complaints Strengthen Housing Rights Standards
Professor Padraic Kenna
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Collective Complaint European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) v. Italy No. 244/2025
Date of the decision:
2 July 2025 (decision on admissibility and immediate measures)
Jurisdiction:
Collective Complaints Procedure – European Committee of Social Rights
Country:
Italy
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A Victory Against Denmark’s 'Ghetto Package' and ‘Area-Based Discrimination’
By Susheela Math, Lead of the Open Society Justice Initiative’s work challenging the 'Ghetto Package'.
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FEANTSA v Czech Republic. Collective Complaint No. 191/ 2020. [2.07.2024]
The Complaint
FEANTSA's collective complaint against the Czech Republic in 2020 highlighted a failure to respect the right of families to social, legal and economic protection (Article 16 of the Charter), which includes the right to housing and more specifically:
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Policy Brief: Ending the Criminalisation of Homelessness in Europe
Across Europe, an estimated 1.2 million people are homeless. Many are forced to sleep on the streets, unable to access adequate housing or basic support. This figure, rising steadily since 2008, reflects a deepening housing crisis and growing inequalities, which disproportionately affect the most vulnerable, including young people, women, and even children.
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European Disability Forum (EDF) and Inclusion Europe v. France. (Complaint No. 168/2018)
The complaint presented by the European Disability Forum (EDF) and Inclusion Europe was registered on 14 May 2018.
The complainant organisations allege that France has failed to implement the necessary measures to guarantee in practice:
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Homeless Bill of Rights
The criminalisation of homelessness is on the rise in Europe. Bans on begging, the 'cleansing' of public spaces or the installation of 'defensive' street furniture are just some of the practices increasingly used to restrict and deny the basic rights of some of society's most vulnerable citizens.
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New UN report on banning discrimination on grounds of socioeconomic disadvantage
The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty's new report on “Banning discrimination on grounds of socioeconomic status” was presented to the UN General Assembly in October 2022.
The report addresses the issue of discrimination on grounds of socio-economic disadvantage. Discrimination is part of the daily experience of people in poverty. It restricts access to employment, education, housing or social services, among others.
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New UN resolution on adequate housing adopted
At its Forty-ninth session, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and the right to non-discrimination in this
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