Poverty and Prohibited Grounds for Discrimination in Canada
Legal depository - Country: Canada / Body: Other Domestic Courts / Year: 1993
Summary: A black single mother with two children and relying on social assistance and public housing was given one month’s notice that she would be evicted from her home with no reason given. In Canada public housing was exempted from the security of tenure provisions of the Residential Tenancies...
Read MoreAccess to social welfare benefits for non-citizens in Switzerland
Legal depository - Country: Switzerland / Body: Other Domestic Courts / Year: 1997
Summary: The case involved three brothers, originally from what was previously Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), who were denied access to social welfare benefits in Switzerland on account of being illegal residents . The brothers had been living in Switzerland since 1980, but were expelled to Czechoslovakia in 1987...
Read MoreSocial security for asylum seekers in the United Kingdom
Legal depository - Country: United Kingdom / Body: Other Domestic Courts / Year: 2005
Summary: In this case, the House of Lords listened to appeals by the Secretary of State for Home Department, who denied state support to destitute asylum applicants (“applicants”) on the grounds of not having applied for asylum “as soon as reasonably practicable”. The applicants cited a violation of Article...
Read MoreSpecial protection in pension programmes for women in South Africa
Legal depository - Country: South Africa / Body: Other Domestic Courts / Year: 2007
Summary: Four male applicants, above the age of 60 but below 65, mounted a constitutional challenge to Section 10 of South Africa’s Social Assistance Act 13 of 2004 and the relevant Regulations, which set the age for accessing an old age grant at 60 for women and 65 for...
Read MoreForced evictions and violations of rights recognized by regional and international instruments in Kenya
Legal depository - Country: Kenya / Body: Other Domestic Courts / Year: 2011
Summary: The case was brought before the High Court of Kenya by Hakijamii, a human rights organisation in Nairobi, based on the request of over 1,000 individuals. They included women, children and older persons who reported having been evicted from their homes in Garissa municipality. The homes were built...
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