Pending complaints

Back No. 178/2019 Amnesty International v. Italy

The complaint was registered on 18 March 2018. Amnesty International alleged that the housing situation of Roma and Sinti in Italy is in violation of Article 31 (right of housing), read alone or in conjunction with Article E (non-discrimination), due to the continued perpetration of forced evictions, segregated and substandard housing, and use of discriminatory criteria for the allocation of social housing.

Case document No. 1, Complaint registered on 18 March 2019

Case document No. 2, Submissions by the Government on the merits

Case document No. 3, Response by Amnesty International to the Government's submissions on the merits

Case document No. 4, Further response by the Government on the merits

The European Committee of Social Rights unanimously declared the complaint admissible and decided, by 13 votes against 1, to indicate immediate measures on 4 July 2019.

Decision on admissibility and on immediate measures of the Complaint No. 178/2019

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