ERRC v Bulgaria, Collective Complaint 31/2005 (discrimination, housing)

25 March 2014

The European Roma Rights Centre filed a collective complaint against Bulgaria, under the Revised European Social Charter. ERRC claimed that residential segregation, substandard housing conditions, lack of legal security of tenure and forced evictions and other systemic violations of the right to adequate housing falling disproportionately against Roma in Bulgaria, which amounts to a violation of Art. 16 of the Revised European Social Charter (the right of the family to social, legal and economic protection) read independently and/or in conjunction with Article E (non-discrimination clause).

The Committee held by 9 votes to 1 that the situation concerning the inadequate housing of Roma families and the lack of proper amenities constitutes a violation of Article 16 of the Revised Charter taken together with Article E. Further, the Committee held by 9 votes to 1 that the lack of legal security of tenure and failure to respect the conditions accompanying eviction of Roma families from dwellings unlawfully occupied by them constituted a violation of Article 16 of the Revised Charter taken together with Article E.

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