Human Rights: Housing

CAN is co-ordinating a human-rights based campaign on housing conditions in Dolphin House Rialto. Residents in this flats complex, the largest in Ireland after Ballymun, are living in deplorable conditions with damp, mould and sewage invasion in their homes. These conditions have been demonstrated to pose a real danger to health.

Through gathering evidence on conditions and presenting this evidence at public hearings and in the media, residents are holding the State to account for its failure to ensure that basic housing rights are protected respected and fulfilled.

Under the Convention of Economic Social and Cultural Rights, Ireland is obliged to ensure that citizens have access to adequate housing and access to effective remedy where housing conditions are below standard. Already Dr Maurice Manning, president of the Irish Human Rights Commission has stated that the Irish State is in dereliction of its obligation under this treaty.

This campaign is led by residents who have lived with these conditions for twenty five years now.

Dolphin House residents talk about their conditions

Rialto Rights In Action Group - Ireland's first Universal Periodic Review, Geneva Oct 6th 2011

RRIAG raises issues on the right to Housing and Health at the Universal Period Review.
In August 2011, the group met with Representatives from Ethiopia, Denmark, France, Kenya and Latvia asking them to raise questions on their behalf regarding the extremely poor and health hazardous housing conditions in Dolphin House, Dublin 8.