Communications Nº 230/2021 and 275/2022: Discontinuance Decision

Decision adopted by the Committee under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concerning communications No. 230/2021 and No. 275/2022¹*, ²**

1. *Adopted by the Committee at its seventy-ninth session (9–25 February 2026). ↩
2. **The following members of the Committee took part in the examination of the communication: Aslan Abashidze, Nadir Adilov, Lazhari Bouzid, Asraf Ally Caunhye, Peijie Chen, Laura-Maria Crăciunean-Tatu, Charafat El Yedri Afailal, Peters Sunday Omologbe Emuze, Santiago Manuel Fiorio Vaesken, Ludovic Hennebel, Joo-Young Lee, Karla Vanessa Lemus de Vásquez, Seree Nonthasoot, Laura Elisa Pérez, Julieta Rossi, Preeti Saran and Michael Windfuhr. Pursuant to rule 23 of the rules of procedure under the Optional Protocol, Giuseppe Palmisano did not participate in the examination of the communication. ↩

Communications submitted by: V.M. et al., and A.T.

State Party: Italy

Dates of communications: 3 October 2021 and 8 May 2022 (initial submissions)

The authors of the communications claim that the State Party has violated their rights under article 11 (1) of the Covenant by evicting them without providing alternative housing.

The Committee, acting 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 pending consideration of the communications or to provide them with adequate alternative housing, in genuine and effective consultation with them.

The State Party submitted its observations on the communications, which were transmitted to the authors for comments, who provided comments thereon. According to the information given, the authors have been provided with alternative housing.

At its meeting on 18 February 2026, the Committee, having considered the fact that the authors had been awarded housing and that the cases had therefore become moot, decided to discontinue the consideration of the communications under rule 18 of its rules of procedure under the Optional Protocol.