Seminar Series | Housing Rights. Struggles and Strategic Litigations in Four Continents – April – June 2023

Seminar Room 1, SPGI Department, via del Santo 28, Padua – Italy & online

As part of the Master’s degree program in Human Rights and Multilevel Governance (HRG) of the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padua (SPGI), the seminar series Housing Rights. Struggles and Strategic Litigations in Four Continents will run from April 26 to June 28, 2023. The seminars, aimed at students in the International law of human rights course (Prof. Paolo De Stefani), is open online to all people interested in the defense of the right to housing.

The series, in collaboration with the International Alliance of Inhabitants, consists of webinars and in-person workshop meetings on housing issues from a human rights perspective, in which the coordinators of the IAI and experts from Spain, Argentina, Tunisia, Brazil, and India, aimed at learning more about the role of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in defending the right to housing.

Meetings are held on Wednesdays always in Seminar Room 1 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. CEST (maximum capacity 20 seats)

and via Zoom platform at the following link:

Interpreters: IT/EN/ES/FR/PT

Information: Seminar Series | Housing Rights. Struggles and Strategic Litigations in Four Continents.

PROGRAM OF MEETINGS

Wednesday 26.04.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html… )

Using international human rights law procedures to defend housing rights

* Cesare Ottolini, International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI), global coordinator, Italy

Wednesday 03.05.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html… )

Right to housing and “zero evictions”. Communications to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

* Paco Morote, Plataforma Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), España

Wednesday 17.05.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=IDPs,+Slums,+COVID-19+India&iso=20230517T15&p1=5654&ah=1&am=30 )

IDPs, Slums, COVID-19, international human rights standards, and housing rights in India

* Varghese Theckanath, Montfort Social Institute (MSI), director, Hyderabad, India

Wednesday 31.05.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Derecho+a+la+vivienda+y+a+la+tierra,+Argentina&iso=20230531T15&p1=5654&ah=1&am=30 )

The right to housing and land: the case of Argentina

* Cristina Reynals, International Alliance of Inhabitants Cono Sur, coordinator, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Wednesday 14.06.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html… )

Housing Rights in the Mediterranean Space

* Soha Ben Slama, IAI and International Tribunal on Evictions (ITE), coordinator, Tunisia

Wednesday 28.06.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Despejos+Zero,+direito+%C3%A0+moradia+e+democracia+no+Brasil&iso=20230628T15&p1=5654&ah=1&am=30 )

“Despejos Zero”, right to housing and democracy in Brazil

* Getulio Vargas Jr., Bartiria Lima da Costa, Confederaçao Nacional Moradores (CONAM) and Campanha Despejos Zero, Brasil

Special series

Wednesday 10.05.2023 and Wednesday 24.05.2023

Building a task force on housing rights at HRG

* Cesare Ottolini, Paolo De Stefani

* Scientific director: Paolo de Stefani, University of Padua.