Date of the decision: September 10, 2014
Jurisdiction: Court of Justice of the European Union
Country: Slovakia
Subject: Directive 93/13/EEC - Unfair terms - Consumer credit agreement - Article 1(2) - Term reflecting a mandatory statutory provision - Scope of the directive - Articles 3(1), 4, 6(1) and 7(1) - Security for credit in the form of a charge on immovable property - Whether it is possible to enforce the charge by means of a sale by auction - Judicial review.
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
Introduction
Criminalization of homelessness will be in the international
spotlight as hundreds of advocates join top
government officials from the United States in Geneva,
Switzerland, October 17-18, 2013, for the Human Rights
Committee (HRC) Hearing on U.S. compliance with
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
(ICCPR). As a result of strategic advocacy by the National
Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (the Law
Center), not only will the government be held accountable
On 13 June 2014, Housing Rights Watch, along with Fondation Abbe Pierre and FEANTSA organized an expert workshop to talk about housing solutions for homeless people in Europe.
In this case, the Court considered that the minimum reception conditions of asylum-seekers, including housing, remain a duty for a Member State in receipt of an application for asylum, even where another Member State is finally to take charge of the applicant. This obligation only ceases "when that applicant has actually been transferred by the requesting Member State" and when the financial burden of granting minimum reception conditions is to be assumed by the requesting Member State (para. 58, 61).
In 2009, an Albanian long-term resident in Italy (hence deserving equal treatment with EU citizens in the field of social assistance, as expressed by Directive 2003/109/EC on the status of long-term resident third-country nationals in the EU) was refused housing assistance for the first time since his first application in 2004. The funds for housing assistance for non-EU nationals, inferior to the funds available for EU citizens, were exhausted.
Summary
This submission highlights key areas of concern regarding Spain’s compliance with its international human rights obligations: migration and asylum policy, sexual and reproductive rights, the right to peaceful assembly, the right to adequate housing, incommunicado detention, and universal jurisdiction.
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