Right to housing

Groundbreaking African Commission Decision on Human Rights Violations in Darfur

In a landmark decision, Communication 296/05, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) v The Sudan, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights ruled on a communication centring on allegations of a wide range of human rights violations committed by the Sudanese government and non-state actors against the people of Darfur. The ruling, released(…)

Evictions, The Human Right to Adequate Housing and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

Today’s Irish Times features an impassioned and pointed piece by Patsy McGarry about the eviction of a family in Loughlinstown that was carried out by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council last Friday. In it, he notes the irony that the eviction coincided with the weekend of our second National Famine Commemoration Day. According to the article the family included(…)

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