Decision adopted by the Committee under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, concerning communications No. 159/2019, No. 220/2021 and No. 254/20221**, 2***
- *Reissued for technical reasons on 24 June 2025.**Adopted by the Committee at its seventy-seventh session (10–28 February 2025). ↩
- ***The following members of the Committee took part in the examination of the communication: Aslan Abashidze, Lazhari Bouzid, Asraf Ally Caunhye, Laura-Maria Crăciunean-Tatu, Charafat El Yedri Afailal, Peters Sunday Omologbe Emuze, Santiago Manuel Fiorio Vaesken, Ludovic Hennebel, JooYoung Lee, Karla Vanessa Lemus de Vásquez, Seree Nonthasoot, Giuseppe Palmisano, Laura Elisa Pérez, Julieta Rossi, Preeti Saran and Michael Windfuhr. ↩
Communications submitted by: E.C.M. et al.
M.C.L.R. et al.
J.M.B.P.
State Party: Spain
Date of communications: 2 October 2019, 2 July 2021 and 27 January 2022 (initial submissions)
The authors of the communications claim that the State Party violated their rights under article 11 (1) of the Covenant by evicting them without ensuring that they had alternative housing.
The Committee, through its Working Group on Communications, registered the communications and requested the State party to take interim measures to suspend the eviction of the authors and their families pending the consideration of the communications or to provide them with adequate alternative housing, in genuine and effective consultation with them.
At its meeting on 14 February 2025, the Committee, having considered the request to withdraw the cases made by the authors, who claim to have reached an out-of-court agreement with the owners of the housing to continue the rental agreement, in respect of communications No. 159/2019 and No. 254/2022, and to vacate the housing, in respect of communication No. 220/2021, decided to discontinue its consideration of the communications, pursuant to rule 18 of its Rules of Procedure under the Optional Protocol.