We are pleased to inform you that the UNESCO Chair on the Right Housing (University Rovira i Virgili) and the Housing Rights Watch network of FEANTSA are organizing the International Conference on ‘Ensuring the effective exercise of the right to housing in the EU’, which will be held in Tarragona (Spain) on the 27th and 28th April 2017.
This International Conference aims at bringing together national and international academics, experts, practitioners and regulators in order to discuss fundamental legal issues concerning affordable access to housing and right to housing for the homeless, such as housing tenures and human rights, evictions and homelessness in Europe, homeownership and mortgages, evictions, tenancies and intermediate tenures, right to housing and homelessness and European instruments, policies and jurisprudence.
Papers are welcome to be presented during the parallel sessions in the Conference.
[Call for papers open until 27th March] – Closed
We would like to highlight the following plenary sessions:
Thursday 27
13:45-14:45
Plenary session 1. “Evictions and homelessness in Europe”
Chair: Feek Spinnewin, Director of FEANTSA
Speakers:
- Dr. Padraic Kenna, Univ. of Galway, HRW correspondent. Evictions and homelessness in Europe
- Koldo Casla-Salazar, Researcher on the right to housing, Amnesty International Spain. Evicted Rights II: Right to housing and gender impact of rental evictions in Spain
Friday 28
13:15-14:15
Plenary session 3. “Strategic litigation in the area of housing rights in Europe”
Chair: María José Aldanas, FEANTSA Policy Officer and HRW Coordinator.
Speakers:
- Javier Rubio, attorney at CAES. Preliminary rulings before the ECJ.
- Anais Franquesa, attorney at Iridia. Use of art 39 before the ECHR and the decision on the interim measure.
- Marie Rothhahn and Sarah Coupechoux, Fondation Abbe Pierre. Legal cases to contribute to the right to housing in France.
You can see full Programme here.
Registration here.
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