Child Labour in Mauritania
Legal depository - Country: Mauritania / Body: African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child / Year: 2017
The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child considered a communication concerning child slavery and held Mauritania accountable for multiple violations of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. The Committee is an African Union body set up to protect...
Read MoreThe Right to Decent Work and Freedom of Association in Peru
Legal depository - Country: Peru / Body: Inter-American Court on Human Rights / Year: 2017
This is the first judgment delivered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that recognizes the direct enforceability of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) under Article 26 of the American Convention on Human Rights. In this case, a labor leader successfully asserted a claim against Peru for violating...
Read MoreState and Corporate Accountability in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Legal depository - Country: Democratic Republic of Congo / Body: African Commission of Human and Peoples' Rights / Year: 2016
Summary: In 2004, a small number of lightly armed rebels tried to take control of Kilwa, a remote fishing town in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo). About 50 km away from Kilwa there is a copper and silver mine, where Anvil Mining Company (Anvil Mining), a small Australian-Canadian...
Read MoreRoma Students’ Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination in the Czech Republic
Legal depository - Country: Czech Republic / Body: European Court of Human Rights / Year: 2007
Participatory implementation of D.H. case promotes inclusion of Roma children in Czech schools In this case, applicants challenged the disproportionate classification of Roma school children in the Czech Republic as having special education needs as well as their segregation into schools for children with “Light Mental Disabilities”. The European...
Read MoreRegional Protection against HIV-Based Discrimination in the Armed Forces
Legal depository - Country: Mexico / Body: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights / Year: 2015
The decision originated in separate employer decisions to discharge from the Mexican Army two HIV-positive servicemen who had tested for the virus in standard army-run medical examinations. In the first case, J.S.C.H. had been in the army as a driver for 19 years. The second case involved M.G.S., an...
Read MoreThe Rights to Work and Health in The Sudan
Legal depository - Country: Sudan / Body: African Commission of Human and Peoples' Rights / Year: 2015
Nature of the Case Upon consideration of a communication submitted before it, the African Commission held that in its persecution of human rights defenders, the government of Sudan violated several provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, including the rights to work and health. Summary In...
Read MoreChildren’s welfare in Senegal
Legal depository - Country: Senegal / Body: African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child / Year: 2014
This case addresses the plight of as many as 100,000 children (known as talibés), who while attending Qur’anicschools (daaras) in Senegal, are forced by some instructors to beg in the streets, to secure their own survival and enrich the teachers. The children live away from their families, often in...
Read MoreEqual treatment of nations and non-nationals in Austria
Legal depository - Country: Austria / Body: European Court of Human Rights / Year: 1996
Summary: The verdict in Gaygusuz versus Austria established an important case law regarding the equal treatment of nationals and non-nationals. Gaygusuz, a Turkish national, had come to Austria in 1973 and worked for almost a decade with some gaps when he went back to Turkey. He later applied for...
Read MoreGender-based discrimination of benefits for pensioners
Legal depository - Country: United Kingdom / Body: European Court of Justice / Year: 1999
Summary: The case was brought by Mr. Taylor petitioning against the difference in the age of eligibility between men and women to receive winter fuel allowances as part of social security. While the age of eligibility was 60 and above for women, it was 65 and above for men....
Read MoreAccess to health care for children of illegal immigrants in France
Legal depository - Country: France / Body: European Committee of Social Rights / Year: 2004
Summary: The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) claimed that France had violated the right to medical assistance (Article 13 of Revised European Social Charter) by ending the exemption given to illegal immigrants, with very low incomes, from expenses for medical and hospital treatment. The complainant alleged the...
Read MoreJudicial protection of of pensioners’ rights in Peru
Legal depository - Country: Peru / Body: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights / Year: 2005
Summary: The complaint was filed at the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) by a group of retired public servants against the State of Peru alleging violation of the right to property and the right to judicial protection relating to non-compliance with court decisions. Concerning the reduction of retiree...
Read MoreConditions for receipt of unemployment benefits and other forms of insurance in the Netherlands
Legal depository - Country: Netherlands / Body: European Committee of Social Rights / Year: 2006
Summary: The European Committee of Social Rights reviewed the report of the Dutch government on the levels of social security in The Netherlands and noted that the Unemployment Benefit Act (WW) comprises a short-term benefit (conditions for payment 26 weeks of paid employment during the last 39 weeks), and...
Read MoreRules for adequate unemployment benefits in Denmark
Legal depository - Country: Denmark / Body: European Committee of Social Rights / Year: 2006
Summary: The European Committee of Social Rights reviewed the report submitted by the Danish government on the level of social security in Denmark. Under Article 12, the Committee considered that one of the aims of an unemployment benefit system is to offer unemployed persons adequate protection during at least...
Read MoreAdequate levels of social protection benefits in Hungary
Legal depository - Country: Hungary / Body: European Committee of Social Rights / Year: 2010
Summary: The European Committee of Social Rights assess the adequacy of the benefits provided under the different branches of social security in Hungary in light of Article 12(1) of the European Social Charter. In light with its previous conclusions, notes that social security benefits are adequate when they are...
Read MoreAdequate levels of social protection benefits in Ireland
Legal depository - Country: Ireland / Body: European Committee of Social Rights / Year: 2010
Summary: The European Committee of Social Rights assess the adequacy of the benefits provided under the different branches of social security in Ireland in light of Article 12(1) of the European Social Charter. In light with its previous conclusions, notes that social security benefits are adequate when they are...
Read MoreAdequate levels of social protection benefits in Bulgaria
Legal depository - Country: Bulgaria / Body: European Committee of Social Rights / Year: 2010
Summary: The European Committee of Social Rights notes that a social security system must guarantee an effective right to social security with respect to the benefits provided under each branch (Conclusions XIII-4, General Introduction on Article 12). Moreover, the Committee recalls that Article 12(1) requires social security benefits to...
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