Women’s Property and Inheritance Rights in Tanzania
Legal depository - Country: Tanzania / Body: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women / Year: 2015
Nature of the Case In views adopted under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women held the United Republic of Tanzania accountable for multiple violations of women’s rights, particularly as relates to...
Read MoreWomen’s sexual and reproductive rights in the Philippines
Legal depository - Country: Philippines / Body: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women / Year: 2015
Summary In 1991, the Philippines delegated responsibility for “people’s health and safety” to the local level. In exercise of this power, an executive order 003 (“EO 003”) was issued in Manila, in 2000 which declared that the city would take an “affirmative stand on pro-life issues”. In response to...
Read MoreEqual access to health and family planning information for all women in Hungary
Legal depository - Country: Hungary / Body: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women / Year: 2006
The communication was filed with regards to the alleged forced sterilization of an ethnic Roma woman by medical staff pursuant to an emergency caesarian section that was required to remove a deceased fetus. The Committee found that previous medical care, the poor medical condition of the victim, A.S., upon...
Read MoreAccess to abortion for poor, disabled woman amid conscientious objection in Argentina
Legal depository - Country: Argentina / Body: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women / Year: 2011, 28 April 2011
Summary: The communication was filed by the mother of a woman with a mental impairment amounting to a legal age of a child, concerning the response of public health and judicial institutions to her pregnancy resulting from rape. After being refused by one hospital, a second hospital scheduled an...
Read MoreDuty to prevent discrimination by private health providers on grounds of gender, race or economic status in Brazil
Legal depository - Country: Brazil / Body: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women / Year: 2011
The communication represented the first instance of maternal mortality to be addressed by the international system of human rights, and examined accountability of health provision, in relation to compounding forms of discrimination. The victim was a poor woman of Afro-Brazilian ethnicity. The ethnic, socio-economic and gender factors were widely...
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