Centre on Housing Rights & Evictions
Vol. 7 No. 4 - December 2010
Housing and ESC Rights Law Quarterly National and international legal developments on housing and economic, social and cultural rights for human rights advocates and activists.
COHRE wins case against Italy P2
swiss tribunal denies rights P5
The right to life in india P7
In a recent decision in COHRE v. Italy, the European Committee of Social Rights found Italy in violation of the right of Roma and Sinti to adequate housing and other rights. The Committee, for the first time ever, also defined and found an “aggravated violation” of the Revised European Social Charter with regard to forced evictions.
A case note by Evelyne Schmid critiques a recent disappointing Swiss judicial ruling that the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is not justiciable before Swiss courts but rather merely guides the legislative branch.
In Laxmi Mandal v. Deen Dayal Harinagar Hospital & Ors, the High Court of Delhi rules on maternal mortality and the use of the Directive Principles of the Indian Constitution and international law to inform justiciable Constitutional rights.
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