École Nationale Supérieure
d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville
60 boulevard de la Villette
75019 PARIS
Metro line 2 : Belleville or Colonel Fabien
Thursday 18 june 2015 - 9:00 to 17:00
9:00 Registration
9:15 Welcome from Ian Brossat , Deputy Mayor of Paris, responsible for housing and emergency shelter
9:30 Does challenging measures that criminalise homelessness work? What lessons from the USA and Canada for lawyers and NGOs in Europe?
- Stephen Gaetz, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Melanie Redman, Coalition to End Youth Homelessness, Director of National Initiatives - Eva’s Initiaitives, Toronto, Canada
- Tristia Bauman, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, Washington, USA
Can strategic litigation really make a difference? The Impact of Collective Complaint n°86/2012 against The Netherlands
- Pim Fischer & Joris Sprakel, Fischer Associates, The Netherlands
Popularity contest? Why do some lawyers and judges like certain European Convention of Human Rights articles more than others? Examples from France and England
- Alain Couderc, Lawyer, Lyon Bar, Lyon, France
- Adrian Berry, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers, London, England
12:30 Lunch
The Holy Grail: Finding for a way to bring the right to housing in the scope of EU law...
- Nicolas Bernard, Saint-Louis University, Brussels, Belgium
The European Social Charter: case law on housing rights arising from the decisions of the European Committee of Social Rights
- Regis Brillat , Executive Secretary, European Committee of Social Rights, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
Proposals for holding governments to account and turning housing rights into real solutions for homeless people
- Marc Uhry, Abbé Pierre Foundation, France
- Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporter on the Right to Adequate Housing, United Nations
