The Right to Adequate Housing in Spain
Legal depository - Country: Spain / Body: UN Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights / Year: 2017
The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights found Spain in violation of the right to adequate housing under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The decision confirms that any eviction of tenants from private rental accommodation must comply with the right to adequate housing,...
Read MoreAdolescent 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...
Read MoreProtection against Employment Discrimination in the Republic of Korea
Legal depository - Country: Korea / Body: UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination / Year: 2015
Nature of the Case Upon consideration of a communication submitted before it, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination held the Republic of Korea accountable for multiple violations of rights under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, including the right to...
Read MoreWomen’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 MoreGuiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
Resources - Author: Magdalena Sepúlveda / Year: 2012
These Principles are the first global policy guidelines focused specifically on the human rights of people living in poverty. They are intended for use by governments to ensure that public policies, including poverty eradication efforts, reach the poorest members of society, respect and uphold their rights, and take into account...
Read MoreMeasures to ensure equality of treatment of migrant workers in case of work-related accident in Thailand
Legal depository - Country: Thailand / Body: Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations / Year: 2011
In previous observations on the application of the Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention, No 19, the Committee of Experts had expressed deep concerns over the situation of more than 2 million migrants working in Thailand. In response to these concerns, the Thai Government argued that the Workmen’s Compensation...
Read MoreAdoption of principles of collective financing and social solidarity in Bolivia
Legal depository - Country: Bolivia / Body: ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations / Year: 2011
In 2010 Bolivia adopted a new constitution that established a new hierarchy of legal standards by giving precedence of international instruments ratified by state over national laws. In the spirit of harmonizing existing law to the new Constitution, the State and the Bolivian Workers’ Federation (COB) signed a framework...
Read MoreThe privatization of the pension system in Chile
Legal depository - Country: Chile / Body: ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations / Year: 2011
In 1980 Chile reformed its pension system leading to the privatization of the pensions. This reform gave rise to several representation procedures before the Governing Body under article 24 of the ILO Constitution between 1986 and 2001. The Governing Body concluded that Chile’s pension reform did not comply with...
Read MoreAusterity measures that contravene Conventions by reducing social protection and increasing poverty
Legal depository - Country: World / Body: ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations / Year: 2009
In its general report of 2009, the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) observed that the global financial crisis was posing a real threat to the financial viability and sustainable development of social security systems and undermining the application of ILO social security standards....
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...
Read MoreAusterity measures that contravene Conventions by reducing social protection and increasing poverty in Greece
Legal depository - Country: Greece / Body: ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations / Year: 2014
Recalling previous recommendations, the Committee observed that the austerity measures in conjunction with the continuous contractions of the economy, employment and public finances posed a threat to the viability of the Greek national social security system, resulting in the impoverishment of the population, thus undermining the application of all...
Read MoreProtection of Non-nationals without Discrimination in France
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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