Forum: European Committee of Social Rights
INTERIGHTS' role: Co-applicant
Keywords: Housing, discrimination, minorities
In March 2008, INTERIGHTS, in partnership with Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM), filed a complaint to the European Committee of Social Rights against Greece detailing serious and widespread violations of the Roma community’s right to housing and related guarantees as protected by Article 16 of the Charter together with the safeguard against non-discrimination in the Preamble.
According to both the Greek State’s own official data and that recorded by the GHM, Greece, through both its own agents and in collaboration with private actors, has, since the end of 2004, carried out over 20 forced evictions throughout the country affecting several hundred Greek and Albanian Roma families. In particular, Roma in the Patras area have been subjected to a deliberate planned policy of eviction.
INTERIGHTS Contact: Iain Byrne, Senior Lawyer, Economic and Social Rights Programme
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