Amnesty International filed a complaint before European Committee of Social Rights in response to the ongoing scandal of the housing situation of Roma in Italy, Amnesty International filed a complaint on 18 March 2019 with the European Committee of Social Rights. The complaint is the first ever to be filed by Amnesty International under the Committee’s collective complaints procedure.
A press conference with tenants and supporting organisations took place Monday, 23 October 11 am at The Witness Gallery, The GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.
Féher Boróka,
BMSZKI - Budapesti Módszertani Szociális Központ és Intézményei
Date of the decision: January 21, 2011
Jurisdiction: Council of Europe – European Court of Human Rights
Country: Belgium and Greece
Subject: ECHR – articles 2 and 3 – lack of remedy – Article 13.
Date of the ruling (Decision on the merits) : June 30th 2011
Jurisdiction : European Committee of Social Rights
Legal basis : Article E (non-discrimination), Article 31§1 (right to housing - promote to housing of an adequate standard), Article 16 (right of the family to social, legal and economic protection) and Article 30 (right to protection against poverty and social exclusion) of the Revised European Social Charter.
Presentation by Tristia Bauman (tbauman@nlchp.org), Senior Attorney, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, Washington, D.C.
Diagnosis of the residential model and proposals for another housing policy.
