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5 judgments found.
Country:
Congo, DRC Year: 2016
Court: United Nations Human Rights Committee
Citation: Communication No. 2465/2014; UN Doc. CCPR/C/118/D/2465/2014
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Hospitals,
Prisons,
Violence Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Freedom of association,
Right of access to information,
Right to bodily integrity,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to participation
Facts: Eugène Diomi Ndongala Nzo Mambu was a national of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and president of the opposition political party in the State, challenging the legitimacy of an election. He alleged that he was abducted in 2012 and held incommunicado for three months and 13 days while being interrogated about his ties with …Read more
Tags: Abuse,
Access to health care,
Access to medicines,
Access to treatment,
Cruel treatment,
Custody,
Degrading treatment,
Detainee,
Detention,
Humiliating treatment,
Imprisonment,
Incarceration,
Inhuman treatment,
Inmate,
Jail,
Prison conditions
Country:
Burundi,
Congo, DRC,
Rwanda,
Uganda Year: 2003
Court: African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Citation: (2004) AHRLR 19 (ACHPR 2003); Communication 227/99
Health Topics:
Child and adolescent health,
Disasters and emergencies,
Health care and health services,
HIV/AIDS,
Hospitals,
Violence Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Freedom of movement and residence,
Right to bodily integrity,
Right to family life,
Right to health,
Right to life,
Right to property
Facts: The Democratic Republic of Congo initiated proceedings before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, alleging that the respondent countries (Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda) committed various human rights violations. The Democratic Republic of Congo alleged that the respondent countries committed multiple massacres against people of the Democratic Republic of Congo including attacking Inga hydroelectric …Read more
Tags: AIDS,
Armed conflict,
Assault,
Children,
Execution,
Forced displacement,
HIV,
HIV positive,
Manmade disaster,
Military,
Militias,
Public hospitals,
Rape,
Sexual assault,
Sexual violence,
Transmission,
Violence against women
Country:
Congo, DRC Year: 1995
Court: African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Citation: Communications 25/89, 47/90, 56/91, 100/93 (joined)
Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
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
Facts: Members of the World Organization Against Torture filed Communication 25/89 with the African Commission for Human and People’s Rights (‘the Commission’) in March 1989 alleging torture of 15 detained persons by a military unit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (‘the DRC’). The Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights in New York filed Communication 47/90 with …Read more
Tags: Torture
Country:
Congo, DRC Year: 1993
Court: United Nations Human Rights Committee
Citation: Communication No. 366/1989
Health Topics:
Prisons Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right to liberty and security of person
Facts: Kanana Tshiongo A Minanga (K), a founder of a political party opposed to the governing regime of President Mobutu, complained that he was taken by members of the Zairian defense forces to the headquarters of the political police supposedly to meet the director and then held overnight without any reason being given. While there, he …Read more
Tags: Cruel and unusual punishment,
Cruel treatment,
Detainee,
Detention,
Humiliating treatment,
Inhuman treatment,
Torture
