Housing Rights Seminar

Date of the decision : June 17th 2015

Jurisdiction : UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)

Date of the ruling : October 20th 2015

Jurisdiction : European Court of Human Rights (Chamber judgement*)

Legal basis : Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention of Human Rights.

International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) News

On September 15th 2015, one more step in the criminalisation of asylum seekers has been taken by the Hungarian government.

August 2015 - The US government has declared that it is unconstitutional to pass measures that criminalise the life-sustaining activities of people who are homeless.  Thanks in large part to the campaigning and education activities of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (http://www.nlchp.org) at the United Nations, the government has recognised that criminalisation measures including bans on sitting, lying, camping, etc., in fact violate human rights.  This is pertinent to EU countries as well, since these measures violate human rights foun

Presentation by Tristia Bauman (tbauman@nlchp.org), Senior Attorney, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, Washington, D.C.

Dear readers,

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?