Adolescent Sexual Rights in Peru
Legal depository - Country: Peru / Body: Human Rights Committee / Year: 2005
Nature of the Case In views adopted under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee held the Peruvian government accountable for failing to ensure access to legal abortion services essential to the health of the petitioner, thus violating her...
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Legal depository - Country: France / Body: Human Rights Committee / Year: 1989
Summary Ibrahim Gueye and 742 other retired Senegalese members of the French Army submitted this case before the Human Rights Committee alleging racial discrimination in French legislation. The petitioners contended that the French law accorded different treatment to those retired army men of Senegalese nationality who served in the...
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