Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. Call for Input: Localizing the right to adequate housing: How local governments and community-led initiatives can contribute the realization of the right to adequate housing. Deadline 21 September 2026 www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...

Everyone should have a safe place to call home, but our research shows that rental costs are seeing above-inflation rises of between 6 and 9 per cent every year - in every region across England. Read more about our work in @the-independent.com today. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

A finales de 2030 se habrá perdido la mitad del millón y medio de viviendas protegidas construidas desde 1991. 🇪🇸 Estudio de @civio.es civio.es/lo-publico/2... Hay que poner fin a la privatización encubierta de este recurso público para hacer del derecho a la vivienda un derecho real y efectivo.

This is an absolutely fantastic new resource on the European Social Charter, and (although I'm yet to read it) looks like it will become a repeated, key reference point for those of us working on social rights in Europe: www.racse-anesc.org/en/commentary/ (HT via @koldocasla.bsky.social)

You can watch my open dialogue with civil society at #WorldUrbanForum #WUF13 here webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1t...

🚨 Breaking: 76 civil society orgs have written to the UK Gov calling for economic, social & cultural rights to be recognised. 50 years ago today, the UK ratified #ICESCR50 and promised rights including housing, food & health. That promise remains unfulfilled. Read 👇 justfair.org.uk/wp-content/u...

New on the Blog! @koldocasla.bsky.social shares his SLSA International Collaboration Grant funded project on the progressive realisation of economic, social and cultural rights. www.slsa.ac.uk/post/litigat...

Immigration make Britain brilliant

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

"les descendants de sociétés historiquement fondées sur les cultures agricoles ont une probabilité plus élevée d’être propriétaires." Reste robuste après avoir contrôlé de nombreux facteurs: revenu, éducation, origine ethnique, géographie, situation matrimoniale, structure du foyer.

Delighted to announce that next year we are going to have a *Right to Housing Unit* in partnership between the Human Rights Clinic @universityofessex.bsky.social & UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. Starting in October 2026 for PGT & UG students www.essex.ac.uk/research-pro...

Framing the Social Implications of AI. Recommendations by @frameworks.bsky.social www.frameworksinstitute.org/resources/fr...

🇳🇵 My colleagues and I urge the Government of #Nepal to immediately halt evictions along riverside corridors in Kathmandu & engage in genuine dialogue with affected communities. Many residents are internally displaced & in situation of acute vulnerability. cc/ @koldocasla.bsky.social & Elena C. Díaz

I joined the Special Rapporteur on Internally Displaced Persons (Paula Gaviria Betancur) and the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty (Elena Díaz Galán) in urging Nepal to halt mass forced evictions in Kathmandu. 🇺🇳 🇳🇵 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

I joined other UN Special Procedure mandate holders today in calling for the immediate release of Gaza-bound Flotilla activists by Israel. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Health, education, care, housing, social protection and climate action all depend on how public resources are raised, allocated and used. A new resolution by the Inter-American Commission on Human Right recognises this connection. 📘 🔗 Read it here: oas.org/en/iachr/dec...

The interim Syrian government risks replacing one era of cronyism with another, writes Noor Hamadeh (@noor-ham.bsky.social). Syria’s economic future must be reshaped through tangible accountability for corporations and businesspeople, she argues: #Syria #Corruption #SyriainTransition

🇺🇳 La primera comunicación de mi mandato ha sido publicada hoy. Me dirijo al Gobierno de Argentina para expresar mi preocupación respecto al Proyecto de Ley sobre la Inviolabilidad de la Propiedad Privada. 🇦🇷 Texto completo: spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas... Abro hilo 🧵

"The right to own something doesn't include the right to exclude people". Not always, at least. It does not. It should not. And if rules say it does, we must change the rules.

"When digital noise, flaring partisanship, and social withdrawal dominate [life] experiences, our ability to connect with those around us steadily weakens." By Kayla Hill - Open Global Rights www.openglobalrights.org/the-empathy-...

Hoy tan solo un 39% de las viviendas de alquiler en España están en manos de personas que tan solo alquilan una. www.eldiario.es/economia/peq...

Housing is a social determinant of health inequalities.

Viviendas protegidas a perpetuidad. 👏 Giro a 70 años de privatizaciones. Nunca es demasiado tarde.

Que no te cuenten cuentos. La riqueza, la riqueza de verdad, se hereda.

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Help to Buy is taxpayer’s money mobilised to favour some while those who needed support the most were left behind by austerity-obsessed policies. It speaks volumes about political priorities. Right to housing and right to property are two very different things.

"Be more Francesca Albanese!!!" Taking note of this admirable role model of vision, determination and sacrifice. In The Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

Nazio Batuetako Giza Eskubideen Kontseiluak Koldo Casla irakasle donostiarra Etxebizitza Egokiari Buruzko kontalari berezi izendatu du, berriki. Hiru urtez edukiko du kargu hori Caslak, gutxienez.

El donostiarra Koldo Casla asumirá el próximo 1 de mayo el cargo de relator especial de Naciones Unidas sobre vivienda adecuada 👉 https://mrf.lu/bfx1

"La vivienda es tan clave en el escudo social como la salud y la educación." Agradezco a Martin Ruiz Egaña la entrevista publicada en @diariovascobsky.bsky.social hoy. www.diariovasco.com/gipuzkoa/viv...

Investigamos los planes de vivienda protegida en alquiler al detalle y encontramos un modelo pensado para rentas medias y altas, que deja fuera a quienes más lo necesitan. Aquí una radiografía de cómo las políticas públicas de alquiler pueden acabar logrando justo lo contrario de lo que promueven.

Koldo Casla’s Appointment as UN Special Rapporteur Highlights New Research on Property, Housing and Social Rights cc @universityofessex.bsky.social & @elgarpublishing.bsky.social www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2...

Social cohesion doesn't mean nativism and homogeneity. It requires ending poverty and reducing inequalities. Read 👇

My research shows that chess created a space in which players – regardless of their skin colour – could engage as equals.

In response to some governments' insistence on keeping Article 3 ECHR for some undefined 'most serious issues', Rishika Sahgal writes about why and how the widespread and systematic destruction of homes (domicide) is a form of inhuman and degrading treatment. strasbourgobservers.com/2026/04/03/a...

OUT NOW - The Social Right to Property: Social Function and Human Rights @koldocasla.bsky.social of @universityofessex.bsky.social This Open Access title is free to read and download on Elgaronline: doi.org/10.4337/9781... Also available in print on our website: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

Nesar y Fidere, los dos fondos de inversión que compraron 2.490 viviendas públicas al Ayuntamiento de Madrid, los revenden ahora 6 veces más caros. elpais.com/espana/madri...

Policymakers need not make a stark choice between an economy that serves consumers and one that serves workers. Dani Rodrik (@drodrik.bsky.social) shows how policies that favor the latter can serve the former. bit.ly/4cJCovz

Hey world, I have a new book! The Social Right to Property: Social Function and Human Rights. With @elgarpublishing.bsky.social #OpenAccess here www.elgaronline.com/monobook-oa/... 📖 🚨

And the book is out! #OpenAccess www.elgaronline.com/monobook-oa/...

NEW: Short-term holiday lets are a major part of Britain’s tourism industry – but many Labour MPs want tighter controls on their number to protect local communities and housing supply. Will the government listen? @noahvickers.bsky.social reports

Si vamos a hablar de infraocupación, hay que mirar quién vive dónde, y dónde vive quién. Desigualdad y geografía; no media estadística.

In Nepal, local shareholding in a hydropower project changed how communities regarded it.

The Enclosure Acts allowed fencing of common lands that villagers had used for generations. Something similar has happened in the digital space.

Au-delà du slogan « Spain is Different » : pour en finir avec les clichés touristiques sur l’Espagne

🌎 This will be a great event with two members of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Joo-Young Lee & Julieta Rossi) and ESCR Network member Koldo Casla, on the role of UN Treaty Bodies in norm setting & monitoring. 🗓️ 12 March ⏰ 1-2:30 Sign up now

Freedom to waste is not an inevitable privilege of ownership. Very interesting paper by Bróna McNeill and Robin Hickey in Modern Law Review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🗓️ 12 March ⏰ 1 pm The role of Treaty Bodies in human rights norm promotion & in holding States to account. On campus & via Zoom. With Joo-Young Lee, Julieta Rossi, @judithmesquita.bsky.social, Claiton Fyock & me. Human Rights Centre @universityofessex.bsky.social www.essex.ac.uk/events/2026/...

🌎 This will be a great event with two members of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Joo-Young Lee & Julieta Rossi) and ESCR Network member Koldo Casla, on the role of UN Treaty Bodies in norm setting & monitoring. 🗓️ 12 March ⏰ 1-2:30 Sign up now

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