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Members intervene in pair of groundbreaking climate change-related human rights cases pending at the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights

Collectives of ESCR-Net members have filed third-party interventions in a pair of groundbreaking climate change-related human rights cases now pending before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. The two cases—Duarte Agostinho v. Portugal and 32 Other States, and ...

Ahmad Shah Ayubi v. Bezirkshauptmannschaft Linz-Land

Refugees with Temporary Residency Must Be Treated the Same as Citizens for the Purpose of Social Benefits, EU Court of Justice Rules

Mr. Ayubi’s refugee status qualified him for a three-year residency permit and enabled him to apply for state assistance. Under Austrian law, Mr. Ayubi’s temporary residence status restricted him to receiving the minimum amount of benefits, and the District Administrative Authority of Linz-Land granted him the minimum basic allowance and a temporary supplemental allowance.

Bus tour across Europe to promote minimum income schemes

On 24 April, the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN), which coordinates the European Minimum Income Network, launched a bus tour across Europe to raise awareness of the importance of adequate,...

Information from Sex-Worker Forum of Vienna, Austria to the UN CEDAW Committee for the examination of the State party report of Austria at the 54th Session in February 2013

This report was submitted with respect to Article 6 of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which obliges states to “take all appropriate measures, including legislation, to suppress all forms of traffic in women and...

NGO Shadow Report Complementing the 7th and 8th Country Report of the Austrian Government to the CEDAW Committee

This shadow report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is a joint initiative of Austrian NGOs and individual experts complementing the Seventh and Eighth Periodic Austrian Country Report to the CEDAW Committee. The...

Responses and comments of OeAR, EDF & IDA to the list of issues of the CEDAW Committee in consideration of the combined 7th & 8th periodic report of Austria, CEDAW Committee, 54th session

The responses and comments of OeAR, EDF & IDA to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee in consideration of the combined 7th & 8th periodic report of Austria was jointly prepared by the European Disability Forum...