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Housing discrimination and spatial segregation: new reports by UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
Housing Rights Violations Against a Roma Community: The Case of Alba Iulia in Romania
Author: Cezara David
Anti-discrimination Programme Manager
Centre for Legal Resources (CLR)[i]
“He threw us out like animals, telling us that ‘if you don't take your things out of the house now, you can't go in after them’. So many police and gendarmes came with dogs."
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The CERD's concluding observations on the Netherlands offer insight on ways forward for housing rights.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’s concluding observations on the combined twenty-second to twenty-fourth reports of the Netherlands offer insight on ways forward for the country regarding housing rights.
Reminders: The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by its State parties.
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Denmark’s “Ghetto Package” and the intersection of the right to housing and non-discrimination
Susheela Math
Legal Officer, Open Society Justice Initiative
Thousands of people across Denmark face eviction from their homes under the country’s “Ghetto Package,” which seeks to “eradicate” “ghettos” by 2030. The State distinguishes “ghettos” from other areas with the same socio-economic factors on the basis that the majority of residents are of what it calls “non-Western background.”
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Three anti-discrimination legal concepts applied to the housing context
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J.D. and A v. the United Kingdom (Applications nos. 32949/17 and 34614/17) [24/10/2019]
Date of the decision: October, 24
Country: United Kingdom
Jurisdiction: European Court of Human Rights
Legal Basis: Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) in conjunction with Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property)
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Amnesty International filed a Collective complaint on the housing situation of Roma in Italy
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.
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UK Government decided to scrap unjustified evictions pressured by NGOs
Until now, in England and Wales, landlords have been entitled by law to claim their property back and therefore evict their tenants, without providing a reason. These unjustified evictions, with just two months’ notice, are so called Section 21 Evictions as per reference to the Section 21 of the Housing Act of 1988.
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European Roma and Travellers Forum (ERTF) v. France (No. 119/2015) [05.12.2017]
Date of the decision: Decision on the merits on 5 December 2017.
Jurisdiction: Council of Europe – European Committee of Social Rights, Collective Complaint mechanism
Country: France
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The ERTF alleges that the situation in France amounts to a violation of several rights of the Charter because of:
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Human rights and equality must be at the core of the Grenfell inquiry
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