The Right to Equal Education in South Africa
Legal depository - Country: South Africa / Body: Supreme Court of Appeal (South Africa), Supreme Courts / Year: 2015
Nature of the Case Delayed textbook delivery has plagued public schools in Limpopo, South Africa’s northernmost province for several years. The Department of Basic Education and Limpopo Department of Education appealed a high court decision holding that their failure to ensure timely delivery of textbooks to learners in Limpopo...
Read MoreWomen’s Right to Maternal Health Services in Uganda
Legal depository - Country: Uganda / Body: Supreme Court of Uganda at Kampala, Supreme Courts / Year: 2015
Nature of the Case Four petitioners—including the Center for Health, Human Rights & Development (CEHURD) and two family members of women who died during childbirth—appeal the Constitutional Court’s dismissal of their petition in which they alleged that the government violated the Constitution by failing to provide basic maternal health...
Read MoreGuaranteeing life-saving drugs to patients with HIV/AIDS in Venezuela
Legal depository - Country: Venezuela / Body: Supreme Courts / Year: 1997
Summary: The case was brought before the Supreme Court of Venezuela by a group of persons living with HIV, requesting the Instituto Venezolano de Seguros Sociales (Venezuelan Institute for Social Security, IVSS) to ensure the supply of drugs needed to treat diseases arising from AIDS and cover the expenses...
Read MoreEnsuring mechanisms that protect the right to life against the risk of famine in India
Legal depository - Country: India / Body: Supreme Courts / Year: 2006
Summary: In 2001 the Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties claimed that that recent starvation deaths that occurred in the Indian State of Rajasthan were the result of the State’s failure to release grain stocks in fact kept as a guard against famine, and that this denial amounted to a...
Read MoreAccess to information about beneficiaries to ensure social accountability of state decisions
Legal depository - Country: Argentina / Body: Argentina - Supreme Court (Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación), Supreme Courts / Year: 2014
Summary: CIPPEC (Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento ) has been denied access to information concerning the beneficiaries of subsidies and social cash transfer programs in 2006 and 2007. The Supreme Court considered that accessing such data has a clear public interest, since it enables...
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