Back No. 67/2011 Médecins du Monde - International v. France

The complaint was registered on 19 April 2011. According to the complainant organisation the rights of Roma living in France with regard to housing, education for their children, social protection and health care are not respected, in breach of Articles 11 (right to health), 13 (right to social and medical assistance), 16 (right to appropriate social, legal and economic protection for the family), 17 (right of children and young persons to appropriate social, legal and economic protection), 19§8 (guarantees concerning expulsion), 30 (right to protection against poverty and social exclusion) and 31 (right to housing) of the Revised European Social Charter, read alone or in conjunction with the non discrimination clause in Article E.

The European Committee of Social Rights declared the complaint admissible on 13 September 2011.

The European Committee of Social Rights concluded that there was a violation of Article E read in conjunction with Articles 11§§1-3, 13§1, 16, 17§2, 19§8, 30 and 31§§1-2 of the Revised Charter and of Article 13§4. In regard to other situations, the Committee concluded that there was no violation of Article E, read in conjunction with Article 16 and of Article 13§4. It transmitted its report containing its decision on the merits of the complaint to the Parties and to the Committee of Ministers on 20 September 2012.

The Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution CM/ResChS(2013)6 on 27 March 2013.
 

 Decision on admissibility of the Complaint 67/2011

 Decision on the merits of the Complaint 67/2011

 Resolution ResChS(2013)1 of the Committee of Ministers on 27 March 2013

 Findings of the European Committee of Social Rights on the follow-up of the Complaint

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