Housing (Right to adequate)

Los peticionarios son una pareja árabe/israelí que deseaba construir su casa en el asentamiento de Katzir, en Israel. Su solicitud fue rechazada porque eran árabes y las tierras en las que se construyó el asentamiento de Katzir habían sido designadas exclusivamente para judíos. Concretamente, las tierras eran asignadas por el Estado de Israel a la autoridad denominada "Jewish Agency for Israel", la cual las transfería a un organismo que vendía terrenos solamente a judíos.

Appeal of South Gauteng High Court’s dismissal of application for interim relief brought by South African Informal Traders Forum and South African National Traders Retail Association. Appellants cited their right to access to courts under Section 34 of the South African constitution as a basis of their appeal.

The petitioners, members of a nomadic tribal community called Gadia Lohar, migrated from Rajasthan to New Delhi in 1965 and settled in slum clusters (“jhuggies”) in a New Delhi locality known as Gadia Lohar Basti (or Prem Nagar).  They had lived in the locality for over 40 years when their huts were demolished and they contended that the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, and the Slum Department violated their right to shelter, when they did not provide for their relocation to settlements with basic facilities.  Respondents alleged tha

The Committee analyzed three issues regarding the right of Roma to housing in Portugal: the “precarious and difficult housing conditions for a large part of the Roma community”; “the high number of Roma families that live in segregated settings”; and “the inadequacy of re-housing programmes for the Roma community in terms of their family composition, cultural habits and ways of life”.