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

Seminar Series | Housing Rights. Strategic Struggles and Disputes on Four Continents
April – June 2023
Seminar Room 1, SPGI Department, via del Santo 28, Padua – Italy & online

In the framework of the Master in Human Rights and Multi-Level Governance (HRG) of the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padua (SPGI), the seminar series Housing Rights. Strategic Struggles and Disputes on Four Continents will take place from April 26 to June 28, 2023. The seminars, intended for students of the course of International Human Rights Law (Prof. Paolo De Stefani), are also open online to all those interested in the defense of the right to housing.

The cycle, in collaboration with the International Alliance of Inhabitants, consists of webinars on housing issues from a human rights perspective, held by IAH coordinators and experts from Spain, Argentina, Tunisia, Brazil and India, as well as workshops, in presence, aimed at deepening the role of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the defense of housing rights.

Meetings are always held from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. CEST on Wednesdays:
Seminar Room 1, SPGI Department, via del Santo 28, Padua (maximum capacity of 20 seats).
Online, through the Zoom platform https://unipd.zoom.us/j/89673210654

Interpreters : IT/EN/ES/FR/PT

SEMINAR PROGRAM

Wednesday 26.04.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time)

Using international human rights law procedures to defend the right to housing
Cesare Ottolini, International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAH), Global Coordinator, Italy

Wednesday 03.05.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time)

Housing rights and zero evictions. Communications to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Paco Morote, Plataforma Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), Spain

Wednesday 17.05.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time)

IDPs, slums, COVID-19, international human rights standards and housing rights in India
Varghese Theckanath, Director, Montfort Social Institute (MSI), Hyderabad, India

Wednesday 31.05.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time)

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)

The right to housing in the Mediterranean Area
Soha Ben Slama, AIH and International Tribunal of Evictions (ITE), Coordinator, Tunisia

Wednesday 28.06.2023 – 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (click for local time)

Despejos Zero’, housing rights and democracy in Brazil
Getulio Vargas Jr, Bartiria Lima da Costa, Confederaçao Nacional Moradores (CONAM) and Campanha Despejos Zero, Brazil

SPECIAL SERIES

Wednesday 10.05.2023 and Wednesday 24.05.2023

Creation of a task force for the right to housing within the HRG

Cesare Ottolini, Paolo De Stefani

Scientific leader: Paolo de Stefani, University of Padua.

Information: Seminar series on the right to housing. Struggles and strategic disputes on four continents

Info

FB World Assembly of Inhabitantas

FB World Zero Evictions – Cero Desalojos – Zero Evictions

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