Citizen mobilization brings eviction cases to the European Court
Spain, 31 October 2013 | Published in SocialA case from Spain that proves that citizen mobilization can change things.
Due to a massive mobilization of more than 1m citizens, eviction of 16 families in Girona, Catalunya, has been taken to the European Court of Human Rights. Strasbourg has announced a sentence without precedents where it was resolved an injunction of the evictions and as a result the evictions have been stopped.