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3 judgments found.
Country:
Belize,
Trinidad and Tobago Year: 2013
Court: Caribbean Court of Justice
Citation: Tomlinson v. Belize and Trindad & Tobago, CCJ (2013); CCJ Application No. OA 2 of 2013
Health Topics:
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Freedom of movement and residence
Facts: The petitioner was a homosexual man and an LGBT activist who had traveled to Belize and Trinidad and Tobago; he had never been denied entry into either state. When he learned that section 5 of the Belize Immigration Act and section 8 of the Trinidad and Tobago prohibited homosexuals, prostitutes, or any person who living …Read more
Tags: Gay,
Homosexual,
Immigration,
LGBTI,
Migrants,
Queer,
Sexual orientation
Country:
Trinidad and Tobago Year: 2005
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Citation: Series C No. 123, March 11, 2005
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Prisons Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right to bodily integrity,
Right to due process/fair trial
Facts: C was arrested on 11 November 1983 as a suspect in connection with a rape alleged to have occurred in Trinidad a few days earlier. On 16 November 1983 he was released on bail. Between 1985 and 1986 committal proceedings took place and he was ordered to stand trial on 21 February 1986. C was …Read more
Tags: Access to health care,
Access to treatment,
Cruel treatment,
Degrading treatment,
Imprisonment,
Incarceration,
Inhuman treatment,
Inmate,
Jail,
Torture
Country:
Trinidad and Tobago Year: 1996
Court: United Nations Human Rights Committee
Citation: Communication No. 684/1996, CCPR/C/74/D/684/1996
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Mental health,
Prisons Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Facts: R.S. was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. On 8 March 1996, the same day that five other warrants of execution were read (although the prison was only equipped to handle two executions a day), R.S. was read a warrant for his execution, to take place on 13 March 1996. Along with a psychiatrist, …Read more
Tags: Access to health care,
Cruel and unusual punishment,
Cruel treatment,
Custody,
Degrading treatment,
Detention,
Execution,
Humiliating treatment,
Imprisonment,
Incapacity,
Incarceration,
Incompetence,
Inhuman treatment,
Inmate,
Insanity,
Mental competence,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Prison conditions,
Psychiatry
