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.
Op Ed by Niamh Randall, Head of Policy and Communications with the Simon Communities of Ireland and Senator Colette Kelleher.
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.
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.
This article was first published in OpenGlobalRights (Open Democracy)
