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536 judgments found.
Country:
India Year: 1988
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 1988 AIR 1782; 1988 SCR Supl. (1) 755;1988 SCC Supl. 734; JT 1988 (3) 186; 1988 SCALE (2) 325
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
Hospitals,
Mental health,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Human Rights: Right to a clean environment,
Right to food,
Right to health,
Right to housing,
Right to life,
Right to water and sanitation Facts: This writ petition had been filed in the Supreme Court under Article 32 of the Constitution (right to move the Supreme Court for violation of fundamental rights), as a result of a letter outlining the condition of women in a “care home.” It was alleged in the letter that female inmates were made to live …Read more
Tags: Access to health care,
Access to treatment,
Cleanliness,
Diet,
Health facilities,
Malnutrition,
Mental disability,
Mental illness,
Mental institution,
Primary care,
Sewage
Country:
India Year: 1988
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 1988 AIR 1115; 1988 SCR (2) 530; 1988 SCC (1) 471; JT 1988 (1) 69
Health Topics:
Environmental health,
Infectious diseases,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Human Rights: Right to a clean environment,
Right to health,
Right to life,
Right to water and sanitation Facts: Due to discharge of untreated effluents in the Ganga river, the water of the river was rendered unsafe for drinking, fishing and bathing purposes, essentially creating a public nuisance. In M.C. Mehta v. Union of India & ors., ((1987) 4 S.C.C. 463), the Court had held the city municipality, Kanpur Nagar Mahapalika (Mahapalika), responsible for …Read more
Tags: Biohazard,
Biosafety,
Cleanliness,
Contamination,
Environmental degradation,
Malaria,
Pollution,
Sewage,
Typhoid,
Waste management
Country:
Canada Year: 1988
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: [1988] 1 S.C.R. 30
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Health systems and financing,
Hospitals,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Right to bodily integrity,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life Facts: Section 251(4) of the Criminal Code of Canada (the Code) permitted abortions to be performed only at accredited hospitals and then with approval from the performing hospital’s therapeutic abortion committee. Drs. Morgentaler, Smoling, and Scott had together established an abortion clinic in Toronto to perform abortions not approved by a therapeutic abortion committee. Following public …Read more
Tags: Abortion,
Abortion counseling,
Access to treatment,
Clinics,
Criminalization,
Health insurance,
Health regulation,
Maternal health,
Pregnancy,
Private hospitals,
Public hospitals,
Reimbursement,
Subsidies,
Termination of pregnancy,
Therapeutic abortion
Country:
Honduras Year: 1988
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Citation: Series C No. 4, July 29 1989
Health Topics:
Prisons,
Violence Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right to bodily integrity,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life Facts: This case considered the practice of “forced disappearances” by the Government of Honduras, which included secret surveillance, kidnapping and executions. The Court found as proved that “[d]uring the period 1981 to 1984, 100 to 150 persons disappeared in the Republic of Honduras, and many were never heard from again.” It recognized patterns in these disappearances …Read more
Tags: Abuse,
Cruel treatment,
Custody,
Degrading treatment,
Detention,
Execution,
Forced disappearance,
Humiliating treatment,
Inhuman treatment,
Military,
Police,
Torture
Country:
India Year: 1987
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 1987 AIR 990; 1987 SCR (2) 468; 1987 SCC (2) 165; JT 1987 (1) 610; 1987 SCALE (1) 490
Health Topics:
Medicines Human Rights: Right to health,
Right to life Facts: The Petitioner, Vincent Panikurlangara, filed this public interest litigation in the Supreme Court. He sought directions for implementation of an adequate, central policy and establishment of a central drug standards authority, with suitable enforcement powers to ban “harmful and injurious drugs.” Sections 10-A and 26-Aof the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (the Act) conferred on …Read more
Tags: Drug quality,
Drug safety,
Drug testing
Country:
United States Year: 1987
Court: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Citation: Application No. 9213; OEA/Ser.L/V/II.71, Doc. 9 rev.1, 184, 22 September 1987
Health Topics:
Disabilities,
Hospitals,
Mental health Human Rights: Right to health,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life Facts: The Richmond Hill Insane Asylum in Grenada was bombed by military aircraft belonging to the United States in 1983. Petitioners, including Disabled Peoples’ International, presented the names of sixteen persons who were killed and six who were injured and claimed that the deaths and physical injuries of the mental patients were caused by purposeful armed …Read more
Tags: Armed conflict,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental institution,
Military
Country:
Argentina Year: 1987
Court: Supreme Court of Justice [Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación Argentina]
Citation: C. 201. XXI.
Health Topics:
Health care and health services Human Rights: Right to health,
Right to life Facts: The plaintiff, the legal representative of her underage son who suffered from cancer, filed a guarantee of protection of individual constitutional rights (amparo protection) against the National State, the Ministry of Health and Social Action to condemn them to supply an experimental treatment that was tested in some patients, including the plaintiff’s son. The experimental drug …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs,
Access to treatment,
Cancer,
Clinical trials,
Experimental treatment,
Informed choice,
Patient choice,
Right to Health,
Right to Life
Country:
India Year: 1986
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 1987 AIR 1086; 1987 SCR (1) 819; 1987 SCC (1) 395; JT 1987 (1) 1; 1986 SCALE (2) 1188
Health Topics:
Environmental health,
Poverty Human Rights: Right to a clean environment,
Right to health,
Right to life Facts: Shriram Foods and Fertiliser Plant, Delhi (Shriram) was situated amidst a population of 200,000 people. It manufactured items such as glycerin soap, and technical hard oil. The petitioner, M.C. Mehta, filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court to obtain an order for closure of the plant and its relocation to an area where it …Read more
Tags: Biohazard,
Contamination,
Environmental degradation,
Pollution,
Poor,
Toxic waste,
Underprivileged,
Waste management
Country:
India Year: 1986
Court: High Court - Rajasthan
Citation: AIR 1988 Raj 2; 1987 (1) WLN 134
Health Topics:
Environmental health,
Health information,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Human Rights: Freedom of expression,
Right of access to information,
Right to a clean environment,
Right to life Facts: LK Koolwal, the Petitioner, sought to enforce the Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 1959 (the Act) in the city of Jaipur. Under the Act, the Municipality has a duty to clean public places of all filth. The Petitioner contended that several areas in Jaipur were frought with sanitation problems and the Municipality was not performing its duties …Read more
Tags: Awareness,
Freedom of information,
Pollution,
Sewage,
Waste management
Country:
United States Year: 1986
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 477 U.S. 399 (1986)
Health Topics:
Mental health,
Prisons Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life Facts: The Appellant, Ford, was convicted of murder in a Florida state court and sentenced to death in 1974. There was no suggestion that he was incompetent at the time of the offense, at trial, or at sentencing. However in 1982, Ford began to manifest gradual changes in behavior, which, based on a psychiatric examination, indicated …Read more
Tags: Cruel and unusual punishment,
Detention,
Execution,
Imprisonment,
Incarceration,
Incompetence,
Inmate,
Insanity,
Mental competence,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental retardation,
Torture
Country:
Honduras Year: 1986
Court: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Citation: Resolution No. 22/86, Case 7920, April 18, 1986, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.68 Doc. 8 rev. 1, 26 September 1986
Health Topics:
Prisons Human Rights: Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life Facts: Angel Manfredo Velasquez Rodriguez (“AMVR”), a UNAH student, was arrested without warrant in Tegucigalpa on September 12, 1981. Eyewitnesses saw members of the National Investigation Directorate and G-2 (Intelligence) of the Armed Forces of Honduras apprehend and take AMVR to an unknown location. On September 9, 1981, the Government of Honduras recognized the jurisdiction of …Read more
Tags: Armed conflict,
Cruel treatment,
Custody,
Degrading treatment,
Detainee,
Detention,
Forced disappearance,
Humiliating treatment,
Inhuman treatment,
Military,
Militias,
Police,
Torture
Country:
Brazil Year: 1985
Court: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Citation: Case No. 7615, Inter-Am. Comm'n H.R., Report No. 12/85, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.66, doc. 10 rev. 1 (1984-1985).
Health Topics:
Environmental health,
Health care and health services,
Health systems and financing,
Infectious diseases,
Sexual and reproductive health,
Violence Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Freedom of movement and residence,
Freedom of religion,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to education,
Right to health,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life,
Right to property Facts: In the 1960s, the Government of Brazil approved plans to permit the development of the Amazon region, as well as the exploitation of its natural resources, despite Constitutional provisions and national legislation guaranteeing indigenous communities in the region full possession of the lands they occupied and the resources found therein. The root of the violation …Read more
Tags: Access to medicines,
Indigenous groups,
Influenza,
Measles,
Primary care,
Sexually transmitted diseases,
Sexually transmitted infections,
STDs,
STIs,
Syphilis,
Tuberculosis
Country:
Canada Year: 1982
Court: United Nations Human Rights Committee
Citation: Communication No. 67/1980, U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/OP/1 at 20
Health Topics:
Chronic and noncommunicable diseases,
Environmental health Human Rights: Right to a clean environment,
Right to life,
Right to water and sanitation Facts: This communication was filed by the chairperson of the Port Hope Environmental Group on behalf of the residents of Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. From 1945 to 1952, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd., a federal Crown Corporation, disposed of nuclear waste in dumpsites within Port Hope, a town of 10,000 people. In 1975, large-scale pollution of residences and …Read more
Tags: Biohazard,
Cancer,
Contamination,
Genetic disease,
Industrial waste,
Nuclear radiation,
Nuclear waste,
Pollution,
Toxic waste,
Waste,
Waste management,
Water pollution
Country:
United States Year: 1981
Court: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Citation: Resolution 23/81, Case 2141, March 6, 1981; OEA/Ser.L/V/II.54, Doc. 9 rev. 1, 16 October 1981
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Right to health,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life Facts: The President of the Catholics for Christian Political Action and another filed a claim against the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts claiming they failed to fulfill their obligations under the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (the Declaration) and American Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) (the United States has …Read more
Tags: Abortion,
Access to treatment,
Childbirth,
Criminalization,
Maternal health,
Maternal mortality,
Pregnancy,
Termination of pregnancy,
Therapeutic abortion
Country:
India Year: 1980
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 1980 AIR 1622; 1981 SCR (1) 97; 1980 SCC (4) 162
Health Topics:
Environmental health,
Infectious diseases,
Poverty,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Human Rights: Right to a clean environment,
Right to health,
Right to life Facts: Both the prosperous and poor people of New Road, Ratlam were victims of extremely inadequate basic public sanitation facilities, fluid discharge of a local alcohol plant and overflow of storm water to the street. This resulted in various types of septic fluids flowing openly and constantly in the street, and consequently the street’s sanitation was …Read more
Tags: Biohazard,
Cleanliness,
Contamination,
Environmental degradation,
Malaria,
Pollution,
Poor,
Sewage,
Underprivileged,
Waste management
Country:
United Kingdom Year: 1980
Court: European Commission on Human Rights
Citation: App. No. 8416/78, 3 Eur. H.R. Rep. 408 (1980)
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Freedom of religion,
Right to bodily integrity,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to family life,
Right to health,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life,
Right to privacy Facts: The applicant claimed that English law violated provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention), after he found out that his wife was pregnant and planned to have a legal abortion without his consent. Specifically, the applicant claimed that England and Wales violated the right to life and the right to liberty and security …Read more
Tags: Abortion,
Access to health care,
Access to treatment,
Childbirth,
Family planning,
Pregnancy,
Spousal consent,
Spousal notification,
Termination of pregnancy,
Therapeutic abortion
Country:
Argentina Year: 1980
Court: Supreme Court of Justice [Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación Argentina]
Citation: Fallos 302:1284
Health Topics:
Child and adolescent health,
Informed consent Human Rights: Right to bodily integrity,
Right to family life,
Right to health,
Right to life Facts: The parents of the 17 years old plaintiff, Claudia Graciela Saguir y Dib, filed an authorization on behalf of their daughter for her to be able to donate her kidney to her brother, who was suffering from chronic renal terminal failure. Law 21.541, art. 13, established that a person over 18 years old could donate …Read more
Tags: Child,
Children,
Health regulation,
Informed choice,
Kidney disease,
Patient choice,
Underage
Country:
Germany Year: 1977
Court: European Commission on Human Rights
Citation: Brüggemann v. F.R.G., App. No . 6959/75, 3 Eur. H.R. Rep. 244 (1977).
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Health systems and financing,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Freedom of association,
Freedom of religion,
Right to family life,
Right to life,
Right to privacy Facts: In 1975, the Constitutional Court of Germany struck down a law that decriminalized abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. The applicants claimed that the resulting amendment to the German criminal code, which criminalized abortion (except under certain circumstances) in the first trimester of pregnancy violated Article 8 (right to a private life) of the European Convention on …Read more
Tags: Abortion,
Access to health care,
Access to treatment,
Childbirth,
Contraception,
Contraceptives,
Criminalization,
Family planning,
Pregnancy,
Termination of pregnancy
Country:
Ireland Year: 1976
Court: European Commission on Human Rights
Citation: Application No. 6839/74
Health Topics:
Child and adolescent health,
Chronic and noncommunicable diseases,
Disabilities,
Health care and health services,
Health systems and financing Human Rights: Right to health,
Right to life,
Right to social security Facts: The applicant argued that the refusal of the authorities to give her disabled daughter a medical card constituted a breach of her daughter’s right to life guaranteed by Article 2 (right to life) of the European Convention of Human Rights (“the Convention”). The applicant’s daughter suffered from a serious deformation of the larynx, which prevented …Read more
Tags: Access to health care,
Access to treatment,
Children,
Disabled,
Handicapped,
Health funding,
Health insurance,
Infant health,
Minor,
Noncommunicable diseases,
Pediatric health,
Physically challenged
Country:
France Year: 1975
Court: Conseil constitutionnel [Constitutional Council]
Citation: C. C., n°74-54 DC, 15 January 1975
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Right to health,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life Facts: Please note: This opinion is unusual as it does not include the factual background. These facts listed below are developed from alternative sources. Before the promulgation of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Act, 88 senators made a referral to the French constitutional court challenging the constitutionality of the new bill according to article 61 of …Read more
Tags: Abortion,
Access to health care,
Access to treatment,
Late-term abortion,
Termination of pregnancy,
Therapeutic abortion
Country:
United States Year: 1973
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 410 U.S. 179 (1973)
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Poverty,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Right to family life,
Right to health,
Right to life,
Right to privacy Facts: Mary Doe, under a pseudonym, was a married, twenty-two year old mother living in Georgia. At the time of this case, she already had three children, two in foster care and the third given up for adoption due to her inability to provide for them. She sought an abortion from the Grady Memorial Hospital Abortion …Read more
Tags: Abortion,
Abortion counseling,
Access to treatment,
Clinics,
Conscientious objection,
Family planning,
Health care professionals,
Health care workers,
Health facilities,
Low income,
Poor,
Pregnancy,
Private hospitals,
Public hospitals,
Termination of pregnancy,
Therapeutic abortion
Country:
United States Year: 1972
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 408 U.S. 238
Health Topics:
Prisons,
Violence Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right to life Facts: The Court considered three cases together that involved individuals sentenced to death. One case involved a black man who was convicted of murdering a homeowner during an attempted burglary. He was committed to a psychiatric hospital after arrest and diagnosed as suffering from mild to moderate mental impairments with psychotic episodes, but was later found …Read more
Tags: Cruel and unusual punishment,
Cruel treatment,
Degrading treatment,
Execution,
Incarceration,
Inhuman treatment,
Inmate,
Rape,
Sexual violence,
Torture
Country:
Australia Year: 1969
Court: Supreme Court of Victoria
Citation: [1969] VR 667
Health Topics:
Sexual and reproductive health,
Violence Human Rights: Right to health,
Right to life Facts: Davidson was a medical doctor who was charged of four counts of unlawfully using an instrument and one count of conspiring to use an instrument or other means with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman.
Tags: Abortion,
Childbirth,
Criminalization,
Maternal health,
Maternal mortality,
Pregnancy,
Rape,
Termination of pregnancy,
Therapeutic abortion
Country:
Colombia Year:
Court: Constitutional Court [Corte Constitucional]
Citation: Constitutional Court, Fifth Revision Chamber, January 16, 2004, Magistrate: Dr. Rodrigo Escobar Gil, Ruling T-011/04
Health Topics:
Chronic and noncommunicable diseases,
Health care and health services,
Health systems and financing,
HIV/AIDS,
Medicines Human Rights: Right to health,
Right to life,
Right to social security Facts: Jose Vicente Moreno, the plaintiff, was affiliated with the health promoting entity E.P.S. of the I.S.S. del Valle (“E.P.S of I.S.S.”). Due E.P.S. of I.S.S.’s failure to provide medical services that the plaintiff required for the treatment of a catastrophic illness, he filed an transfer request before the health promoting entity Comfenalco E.P.S. (“E.P.S. Comfenalco”), …Read more
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