Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted ESP 5/2013 15/11/2013 Spain JAL Adequate housing; Alleged concerns over the impact of the economic crisis and austerity measures, in Extreme poverty; particular on the right to adequate housing and the right to an adequate standard of Foreign debt; living. According to the information received, a combination of legal reforms, budget enactments and policy interventions conducted between 2010 and 2013 aimed at reducing public expenditures by historic margins at the national, regional and municipal levels. One of the main effects of the Government’s austerity policies has been that the number of people at risk of poverty and exclusion has significantly increased by over two million since 2008. The absence of official data on the number of evictions affecting family homes and the absence of regulations to relocate the evicted families reportedly has made it difficult to assess the dimensions of this problem. COL 11/2013 18/11/2013 Colombia JAL Business enterprises; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Summary executions; Reply Presuntos asesinatos de tres defensores y defensoras de derechos humanos. Según las 07/01/2014 23/01/2014 informaciones recibidas, el Sr. Nelson Giraldo Posada fue asesinado el 17 de septiembre de 2013, la Sra. Adelinda Gómez Gaviria el 30 de septiembre de 2013 y el Sr. César García el 2 de noviembre de 2013. Estos defensores y defensoras estaban involucrados en la defensa y promoción de los derechos humanos, en particular del derecho de acceso a la tierra y a los recursos naturales. A/HRC/25/74 125

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