Indicator history

European Committee of Social Rights

- May 26, 2011 - A complaint of the European Roma and Travellers Forum against France was declared admissible. The complainant organisation claims that the French Government continues to forcibly evict Roma without providing suitable alternative accommodation. It was also alleged that the Roma in France continue to suffer discrimination in access to housing. ERTF alleges that the situation in France is not in conformity with Articles 16 (right of the family to 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.

- September 26, 2011 - the complaint Médécins du Monde International v. France concerning the rights to housing, education of children, social protection and health care for Roma, was declared admissible.

- November 11, 2011 -  in the decision on the merits  in the case COHRE v. France, the Committee concluded unanimously that the conditions in which Roma families were evicted from their homes constituted a violation of article E (non discrimination) in conjunction with articles 31§2 (right to housing - reduction of homelessness) and 19§8 (guarantees concerning deportation) of the Revised Charter.