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
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