{"id":5758,"date":"2019-11-08T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T10:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/the-ecthr-hr-vaw"},"modified":"2021-01-27T14:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:06:14","slug":"the-ecthr-rules-that-the-bedroom-tax-is-discriminatory-against-women-who-are-survivors-of-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/11\/08\/the-ecthr-rules-that-the-bedroom-tax-is-discriminatory-against-women-who-are-survivors-of-domestic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"The ECtHR rules that the &#8216;Bedroom Tax&#8217; is discriminatory against women who are survivors of domestic violence"},"content":{"rendered":" Update!&nbsp;Our Know Your Human Rights tool for women survivors has now been launched.&nbsp;You can access it here:&nbsp;www.knowyourhumanrights-domesticabusesurvivors.co.uk\r\n\r\nLast month, the European Court of Human Rights found that the &lsquo;bedroom tax&rsquo; discriminated against women who are survivors of domestic violence.\r\nFacts of the Case\r\nA&nbsp;and her son&rsquo;s live in a three bedroom house, with a panic room. This housing is provided under the UK's Sanctuary Scheme, which adapts social housing specifically for survivors of domestic violence, enabling them to live safely in their own homes. A is a survivor of violent sexual crime, harassment, and stalking by a former partner.\r\nA receives Housing Benefit to rent her home. Following the change in legislation in 2012 (the so-called &ldquo;Bedroom tax&rdquo;), the applicant&rsquo;s Housing Benefit was reduced by 14%, as she was considered to have one more bedroom than that to which she is entitled (as the house has 3 bedro... \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/the-ecthr-hr-vaw\">British Institute of Human Rights News <\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Update!&nbsp;Our Know Your Human Rights tool for women survivors has now been launched.&nbsp;You can access it here:&nbsp;www.knowyourhumanrights-domesticabusesurvivors.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the European Court of Human Rights found that the &lsquo;bedr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14221,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions\/14221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}