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Tenants’ right to adequate housing is recognized by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

On 20 June 2017, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights issued a ruling, recognizing tenants’ right to adequate housing.

Mohamed Bourmouz, Naouel Bellili and their children were evicted from the home they had rented in Madrid, Spain...

A new tenants union will protect the right to housing in Spain

Following a planning and development process that lasted several months, the new Sindicato de Inquilinos e Inquilinas...

Observatori DESC report on housing exclusion at the local level in Barcelona

This new report by ...

Legal Report on Access to Healthcare in 12 Countries

This Médecins du monde (MdM) Legal Report on access to healthcare in 12...

ESCR-Net publishes article analyzing the historic step towards access to justice for ESCR violations at UN

In September, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) issued historic recommendations, finding Spain in violation of the right to housing, in the first case...

Visualizing Rights: Fact Sheet Series (2014)

Prior to Spain’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in front of the U.N. Human Rights Council, the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) highlighted the effect of austerity measures on a number

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