The Petitioner, Josephine Majani, was a woman from a poor economic background, who was in need of maternal care. As she could not afford private medical care, she went to Bungoma County Referral Hospital, a public health care facility that ought to provide free maternal health care following a Presidential directive that was issued on …Read more

The complainant, Federation of Catholic Families in Europe (FAFCE), had alleged violation of Article 11 of the European Social Charter(hereinafter Charter) on the ground that the government of Sweden (hereinafter respondent) had failed to enact legislation or insufficient/poorly implement legislation governing the practice of conscientious objection by health care providers, which had led to discrimination …Read more

This case is concerned with the conditions surrounding the compulsory admission of the applicant, Mr. Dvořáček, to a psychiatric hospital to undergo, what the European Court of Human Rights described as, “protective sexological treatment”. The applicant was diagnosed with Wilson’s disease in 1999 and was also found to be afflicted with hebephilia owing to which …Read more

This case concerned an application against the Czech Republic lodged with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (the Convention). The applicant alleged that he was ill-treated in a sobering-up centre in violation of Article 3 of the Convention, and …Read more

The case originated as an application against the Russian Federation filed with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (hereinafter the Convention) by a Russian national, Mr. Sergey Gennadyevich Pitalev ( hereinafter the applicant) in 2003. The primary concern is the case was about the …Read more