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Seminar: Instruments for Advocacy and Litigation on Housing Rights: How to Move Forward in the Polish Context
Universal Periodic Review - France January 2019
In the framework of the 3rd cycle of the Universal Periodic Review , States in the Human Rights Council made numerous recommendations to France on Monday, 15 January 2019.
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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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France ratifies Protocol No. 16 to the ECHR triggering its entry into force
Protocol No. 16 to the Convention will allow the highest courts and tribunals of a State Party to request the Court to give advisory opinions on questions of principle relating to the interpretation or application of the rights and freedoms defined in the Convention or the protocols thereto.
This protocol will come into force on 1 August 2018, solely in respect of the States which have signed and ratified it.
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Assessing Austerity: Monitoring the Human Rights Impacts of Fiscal Consolidation
A new Briefing by CESR addresses fiscal austerity and its impact on Human rights. Governments have enacted drastic austerity measures like severe public expenditure cuts, regressive tax changes, and labor market and pension reforms, effectively disinvesting in human rights.
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UN Special Rapporteur's report on Human rights-based housing strategies
The latest Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context was released on February 15.
Leilani Farha latest report provides governments with guidance on developing and implementing rights-based housing strategies.
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The CESCR concerned about the significant rise in homelessness in the Netherlands
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Conference in Tarragona 'Ensuring the effective exercise of the right to housing in the EU'
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Joined Cases C-411/10 and C-493/10 of N.S. v United Kingdom and M.E. v Ireland
Date of the decision: December 21, 2011
Jurisdiction: Court of Justice of the European Union
Country: United Kingdom and Ireland
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing - Mission to Portugal
In December 2016 two United Nations human rights experts visited Portugal and expressed concern about the impact of the economic crisis and the austerity measures on the enjoyment of the rights to housing, water and sanitation in this country.
At the end of a joint official visit to the country, UN Special Rapporteurs, Léo Heller and Leilani Farha, warned about the situation of people in vulnerable situations, including the “new poor”- those who have been pushed into poverty as a result of the austerity measures.
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