Combining constitutional and international standards for social protection resource mobilization in Latvia
Legal depository - Country: Latvia / Body: Constitutional Courts / Year: 2001
Summary: In 2000, twenty Latvian parliamentarians complained to Latvia’s Constitutional Court that certain employers within Latvia were not paying social insurance premiums into a fund for their employees, and that this was a breach of the human right to social security as per Latvia’s constitution as well as Articles...
Read MoreProvision of social security for permanent residents in South Africa
Legal depository - Country: South Africa / Body: Constitutional Courts / Year: 2004
Summary: The case was brought before the Constitutional Court of South Africa by Mozambican citizens living in South Africa as permanent residents. The applicants challenged the validity of certain provisions of the Social Assistance Act 59 of 1992 that denied social assistance to foreign nationals. They cited the infringement...
Read MoreIntegrating informal workers into market reform strategies in Colombia
Legal depository - Country: Colombia / Body: Constitutional Courts / Year: 2009
Summary: Recycling activities in Colombia have traditionally been carried out by extremely poor and marginalized sectors of society. Materials are collected from landfills or the streets, transported and sold as recyclable material to intermediary informal warehouses for modest sums. However, over the course of the last decade, recycling became...
Read MoreEducational opportunities for persons with disabilities in Colombia
Legal depository - Country: Colombia / Body: Constitutional Courts / Year: 2010
Summary: The case was brought before the Constitutional Court of Colombia by the mother of a girl who was diagnosed with cognitive deficit and microcephaly. She contended that the official combined programme of therapy and special education were unaffordable to her. The Court referred to Article 12 of the...
Read MoreProtecting pensions against austerity measures in Latvia
Legal depository - Country: Latvia / Body: Constitutional Courts / Year: 2009
Summary: Latvian pensioners formed a petition and challenged the constitutionality of Latvia’s Law on State Pension and State Allowance Disbursement – commonly known as the ‘Disbursement Law’ – in the period from 2009 to 2012. The overall economy in Latvia was rapidly declining in 2009, and the Latvian Parliament,...
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