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84 judgments found.
Country:
Canada Year: 2020
Court: Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Citation: 2020 ONSC 6398
Health Topics:
Chronic and noncommunicable diseases,
Sexual and reproductive health,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Facts: A motion for an interlocutory injunction was brought to prevent the City of Toronto from enforcing its By-law that prohibited camping and erecting tents, structures, and shelters in City parks, City of Toronto Municipal Code, c. 608. The applicants did not challenge the validity of the By-law but sought an order to have it suspended …Read more
Tags: Access to healthcare,
Access to treatment,
Addiction,
Chronic and noncommunicable diseases,
Cleanliness,
Depression,
Diabetes,
Disabled,
Drug abuse,
drug users,
Health care and health services,
Infectious diseases,
Influenza,
Mental health,
Noncommunicable diseases,
Opioids,
People who use drugs,
Poverty,
Public safety,
Pulmonary diseases,
Respiratory diseases,
Safe drinking water,
Sexual and reproductive health,
Sexual harassment,
Substance abuse,
violence,
water sanitation and hygiene
Country:
Canada Year: 2016
Court: Ontario Court of Appeal
Citation: 2016 ONCA 676
Facts: The applicants appealed a decision affirming the constitutionality of Brian’s Law (Mental Health Legislative Reform), 2000, S.O. 2000, c. 9. (“Brian’s Law”), which was enacted by the Ontario legislature in 2000. Brian’s Law amended the Mental Health Act (“MHA”), adding provisions that expanded criteria for involuntary committal in a psychiatric hospital and introduced community treatment …Read more
Tags: Community-based care,
Compulsory commitment,
Compulsory examination,
Compulsory treatment,
Forced examination,
Forced treatment,
Health care and health services,
Incapacity,
Informed choice,
Informed consent,
Involuntary examination,
Mental competence,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental health,
Mental institution,
Psychiatry,
Public safety,
Schizophrenia
Country:
South Africa Year: 2019
Court: HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA KWAZULU-NATAL DIVISION, PIETERMARITZBURG
Citation: [2019] 4 All SA 469 (KZP)
Facts: The applicants’ claim was based on s. 27(1)(b) of the Constitution – the right to sufficient food and water, which they submitted found further expression in the provisions of the Water Services Act 108 of 1997 (“WSA”). Their complaint argued that farm occupiers and labour tenants, especially the applicants, lacked “access to sufficient water, basic …Read more
Tags: Clean water,
Cleanliness,
Indigent,
Potable water,
Safe drinking water,
Sewage,
Waste,
Waste management
Country:
Slovenia Year: 2018
Court: European Court of Human Rights
Citation: no. 38775/14, § 2, ECHR 2018
Human Rights: Right to property,
Right to social security Facts: The applicant, Mr. Slavko Krajnc, was a professional truck driver in Celje, Slovenia. On September 29, 2003, Krajnc was deemed to have “category III work-related disability” as a result of his epilepsy, which rendered him unable to work as a truck driver. Accordingly, he had the right to be assigned to a different, more suitable …Read more
Tags: Disabilities,
Health systems and financing
Country:
India Year: 2015
Court: High Court of Delhi
Citation: W.P.(C) No. 8568/2010
Health Topics:
Child and adolescent health,
Diet and nutrition,
Health information Human Rights: Right of access to information Facts: Following a petition filed by the Uday Foundation, in February 2011, the Court ordered the Union of India to state whether a global policy had been framed regarding the subject of “junk food” and the emphasis of health and nutrition in schools. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FFSAI) responded to the Court …Read more
Tags: Awareness,
Children,
Diet,
Food,
Health education,
Health promotion,
Malnutrition,
Obesity
Country:
Canada Year: 2015
Court: Court of Appeal, British Columbia
Citation: 2015 BCCA 91
Health Topics:
Aging,
Chronic and noncommunicable diseases,
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
Hospitals,
Informed consent,
Mental health Human Rights: Right to bodily integrity,
Right to health Facts: Mrs. Bentley was an 83-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. Mrs. Bentley had not spoken since 2010 and did not recognize anyone. In 1991 she had signed a directive that expressed her desire to be allowed to die and not be kept alive by artificial means or heroic measures in case there was no reasonable …Read more
Tags: Aged person,
Diet,
Elderly,
Food,
Health facilities,
Incompetence,
Long-term care,
Mental competence,
Neurological diseases,
Patient choice,
Unauthorized treatment
Country:
Kenya Year: 2013
Court: High Court - Nairobi
Citation: Petition No. 94 of 2012
Health Topics:
Aging,
Chronic and noncommunicable diseases,
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
Health systems and financing,
Medicines,
Poverty Human Rights: Right to health,
Right to housing,
Right to social security,
Right to water and sanitation Facts: Petitioner, an elderly retired person, was diagnosed with diabetes and Benign Hypertrophy (a life-threatening terminal disease). Petitioner claimed that that the cost of the medication was prohibitive and that he was in need of urgent medical attention. Petitioner sought assistance of the court to enforce his fundamental rights to the highest attainable standard of health …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs,
Access to health care,
Access to medicines,
Access to treatment,
Aged persons,
Diabetes,
Diet,
Elderly,
Food,
Health spending,
Hunger,
Indigent,
Low income,
Malnutrition,
Noncommunicable diseases,
Older persons,
Out-of-pocket expenditures,
Poor,
Senior citizens,
Underprivileged
Country:
South Africa Year: 2012
Court: Constitutional Court
Citation: [2012] ZACC 30
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
Infectious diseases,
Prisons Human Rights: Right to bodily integrity,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life Facts: While incarcerated in congested prison with poor hygienic conditions, Dudley Lee was infected with tuberculosis (TB). The responsible prison authorities were aware of the risk of the inmates’ contracting TB, but did not have a comprehensive system in place to reduce the risk of infection. Rather, the prison authorities relied on a system of inmates …Read more
Tags: Access to health care,
Access to treatment,
Custody,
Diagnostics,
Duty of care,
Examination,
Imprisonment,
Incarceration,
Inhuman treatment,
Inmate,
Jail,
Malnutrition,
Negligence,
Prison conditions,
Remedies,
Standard of care,
TB,
Tort,
Tuberculosis
Country:
Ecuador Year: 2012
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Citation: Case No. 12.465; Series C No. 245, June 27, 2012
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Environmental health,
Health care and health services,
Medicines,
Violence Human Rights: Freedom of expression,
Freedom of movement and residence,
Right to bodily integrity,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life,
Right to participation,
Right to property Facts: This case concerned the Kichwa nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon, which encompassed two Peoples who shared the same linguistic and cultural tradition. The State of Ecuador had granted a private oil company a permit to carry out oil exploration and exploitation of activities in the ancestral territory of the Kichwa nation. The State did not …Read more
Tags: Abuse,
Access to health care,
Access to treatment,
Alternative medicine,
Cruel and unusual punishment,
Cruel treatment,
Degrading treatment,
Diet,
Humiliating treatment,
Indigenous groups,
Indigenous medicine,
Industrial waste,
Inhuman treatment,
Military,
Pollution,
Primary care,
Rape,
Sexual violence,
Torture,
Violence against women
Country:
Guatemala Year: 2012
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Health Topics:
Child and adolescent health,
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
Health information,
Health systems and financing,
Hospitals,
Poverty,
Violence,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Freedom of movement and residence,
Freedom of religion,
Right to bodily integrity,
Right to development,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to family life,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life,
Right to privacy,
Rights to the benefits of culture Facts: This case deals with the destruction of the Mayan community of Río Negro by a series of massacres perpetrated by the Guatemalan army and members of the civil self-defence patrols in 1980 and 1982 which, according to the IACmHR, included the persecution and elimination of members of the Mayan community, subsequent violations directed against the …Read more
Tags: Access to health care,
Assault,
Budget,
Child development,
Children,
Health promotion,
Low income,
Malnutrition,
Minor,
Poor,
Potable water,
Public hospital,
Rape,
Safe drinking water,
Sewage,
Sexual violence,
Violence against women
Country:
Bulgaria Year: 2012
Court: European Court of Human Rights
Citation: Application no. 36760/06
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
Health systems and financing,
Medicines,
Mental health,
Poverty Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person Facts: S, an adult male diagnosed with schizophrenia, lived for many years with his half-sister and step-mother, his closest living relatives, before they applied in 2000 to the Ruse Regional Court to have S declared legally incapacitated. The court declared S only partially incapacitated. S’s family refused to accept guardianship for S, and the court instead …Read more
Tags: Compulsory commitment,
Compulsory confinement,
Cruel treatment,
Degrading treatment,
Diet,
Examination,
Food,
Health care professionals,
Health care workers,
Incapacity,
Incompetence,
Indigent,
Inhuman treatment,
Involuntary commitment,
Involuntary confinement,
Low income,
Malnutrition,
Mandatory commitment,
Mandatory confinement,
Mental competence,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental institution,
Paranoia,
Poor,
Psychiatry,
Psychology,
Schizophrenia,
Social security
Country:
Zambia Year: 2012
Court: United Nations Human Rights Committee
Citation: Communication no. 1303/2004
Health Topics:
Chronic and noncommunicable diseases,
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
HIV/AIDS,
Medicines,
Prisons Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Freedom of movement and residence,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to education,
Right to family life,
Right to health,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life,
Right to privacy Facts: On 28 October 1997, JC (a military officer) was arrested by Zambian police for an attempted coup d’état. He was severely tortured and charged with treason. While being tortured, he was forced to sign false confessions and to implicate other military officials. Because of the torture, he was hospitalized at various times. On 31 October …Read more
Tags: Abuse,
Access to drugs,
Access to health care,
Access to medicines,
Access to treatment,
AIDS,
Antiretrovirals,
ARVs,
Asylum,
Cancer,
Cruel and unusual punishment,
Cruel treatment,
Custody,
Degrading treatment,
Detainee,
Detention,
Diet,
Execution,
Forced disappearance,
Forced displacement,
HIV,
HIV positive,
Humiliating treatment,
Hunger,
Imprisonment,
Incarceration,
Inhuman treatment,
Inmate,
Jail,
Law enforcement,
Malnutrition,
People living with HIV/AIDS,
PLHIV,
Police,
Prison conditions,
Refugees,
Torture
Country:
Nigeria Year: 2012
Court: The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Citation: JUDGMENT N° ECW/CCJ/JUD/18/12.
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Environmental health,
Public safety,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Human Rights: Right to a clean environment,
Right to food,
Right to health,
Right to water and sanitation Facts: The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a non-governmental organization, filed a case against the Federal Republic of Nigeria alleging human rights violations as a result of the government’s failure to ensure adequate environmental protection in the Niger Delta due to oil spillage. SERAP alleged that decades of oil prospection and exploitation by private corporations …Read more
Tags: Clean water,
Cleanliness,
Contamination,
Drinking water,
Environmental degradation,
Environmental hazards,
Food,
Food safety,
Food shortages,
Pollution,
Potable water,
Safe drinking water,
Water pollution,
Water safety
Country:
Senegal Year: 2012
Court: The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
Citation: Decision N° 003/Com/001/2012
Health Topics:
Child and adolescent health,
Diet and nutrition,
Poverty,
Violence Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right to education,
Right to health,
Right to liberty and security of person Facts: The Centre for Human Rights and the La Rencontre Africaine pour la Defense des Droits de l’Homme submitted a communication to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in relation to the condition of some schools in Senegal. More than 100,000 children were forced to beg on the streets …Read more
Tags: Assault,
Child development,
Children,
Malnutrition,
Poor,
Sexual abuse,
Sexual assault,
Sexual violence,
Starvation,
Underprivileged
Country:
Kenya Year: 2011
Court: High Court of Kenya at Embu
Citation: (2011) eKLR (Kenya).
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
Violence,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right of access to information,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to housing,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life,
Right to water and sanitation Facts: The petitioners claimed that a group of armed police officers arrived on their land and without warning or a court order begun demolishing the houses and structures of the petitioners, leaving them homeless. Further, they alleged that police used tear gas and physical violence to evict the petitioners, who were resisting the demolition. The petitioners …Read more
Tags: Access to health care,
Clean water,
Drinking water,
Food,
Forced displacement,
Police,
Potable water,
Refugees,
Safe drinking water
Country:
India Year: 2011
Court: High Court of Delhi
Citation: W.P. (C) 7687/2010 & CM APPL 6265/2011
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Poverty Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Right of access to information,
Right to food,
Right to life,
Right to social security Facts: The issues presented in this case involved citizens living in poverty and the gaps in essential services provided by the government. The first issue was the availability of cash assistance to new mothers. The petitioners alleged that, per past orders of the Supreme Court, benefits should be made available to them under both the National …Read more
Tags: Advertising,
Awareness,
Budget,
Food,
Health expenditures,
Health funding,
Health spending,
Hunger,
Indigent,
Low income,
Poor,
Starvation,
Underprivileged
Country:
India Year: 2010
Court: High Court - Delhi
Citation: [2010] INDLHC 2983
Health Topics:
Child and adolescent health,
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
Health systems and financing,
Hospitals,
Poverty,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Right to food,
Right to health,
Right to life Facts: This case deals with two petitions, Laxmi Mandal v. Deen Dayal Hari Nagar Hospital and Jaitun v. Maternity Home, MCD, Jungpura. Shanti Devi, Laxmi Mandal’s (the Petitioner) sister, died shortly after giving birth to a premature baby. This was her sixth pregnancy. The previous pregnancy ended in miscarriage. Shanti Devi was not provided with any …Read more
Tags: Children,
Family planning,
Infant health,
Infant mortality,
Malnutrition,
Maternal health,
Maternal mortality,
Minor,
Public hospitals
Country:
Indonesia Year: 2010
Court: Supreme Court
Health Topics:
Child and adolescent health,
Diet and nutrition,
Health information,
Infectious diseases,
Public safety Human Rights: Right of access to information Facts: The plaintiff was the father of two children whose second child was breastfed for the first 6 months and then was switched to a milk formula. In 2008, the Bogor Agricultural Institution published research that there were a number of infant formulas which were contaminated by enterobactersakazakii bacteria which could cause enteritis, sepsis and meningitis. …Read more
Tags: Awareness,
Children,
Disclosure,
Food,
Food poisoning,
Food safety,
Food-borne diseases,
Freedom of information,
Infant health,
Meningitis,
Minor,
Non-disclosure,
Pediatric health,
Safety regulation
Country:
Paraguay Year: 2010
Court: Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Citation: Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 214 (Aug. 24, 2010).
Health Topics:
Child and adolescent health,
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
Health information,
Health systems and financing,
Infectious diseases,
Medicines,
Poverty,
Sexual and reproductive health,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right to bodily integrity,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to life,
Right to property Facts: Indigenous community Xákmok Kásek brought an action against the government of Paraguay before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for failure to meet its international responsibility of timely granting the community members’ request in 1990 for a guarantee of their right to their ancestral lands. Because the government had failed to process their request, the …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs,
Access to health care,
Access to medicines,
Chagas,
Childbirth,
Children,
Dehydration,
Diet,
Drinking water,
Health insurance,
Health records,
Immunization,
Indigenous groups,
Infant health,
Infant mortality,
Malnutrition,
Maternal health,
Maternal mortality,
Medical records,
Minor,
Potable water,
Pregnancy,
Stunting,
Tuberculosis,
Vaccination,
Vaccines
Country:
Latvia Year: 2010
Court: Constitutional Court (Latvijas Republikas Satversmes tiesa)
Citation: Case No. 2009-69-03
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Prisons Human Rights: Right to health Facts: The claimants, two prisoners, alleged a violation of their constitutional rights under Article 111 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia (the “Constitution”) based on the failure of the Government to provide adequate diet and nutrition to protect their right to health. In 2006, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia (the …Read more
Tags: Custody,
Detainee,
Detention,
Diet,
Food,
Imprisonment,
Incarceration,
Inmate,
Jail,
Malnutrition,
Prison conditions
Country:
Kenya Year: 2010
Court: High Court at Nairobi
Citation: Civil Case 1184 of 2003; 2010 AHRLR 185 (KeHC 2010)
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Mental health,
Prisons,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person Facts: The plaintiff, Weheire, brought a suit against the Attorney-General alleging degrading and inhuman treatment during his arrest and detainment in 1986, a violation of his rights under the Constitution of Kenya (“Constitution”),. In December 1986, Weheire was arrested without a warrant. After his arrest, Weheire claimed that his house was unlawfully searched. Weheire further alleged …Read more
Tags: Abuse,
Cruel treatment,
Custody,
Degrading treatment,
Dehydration,
Detainee,
Detention,
Humiliating treatment,
Hunger,
Imprisonment,
Incarceration,
Inhuman treatment,
Inmate,
Isolation,
Jail,
Law enforcement,
Police,
Prison conditions,
Starvation,
Torture
Country:
China Year: 2010
Court: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Court of Appeal
Citation: [2010] HKCFI 431
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Infectious diseases,
Public safety,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Human Rights: Right to a clean environment,
Right to food,
Right to property Facts: The appellant, Asaduzzaman, was charged with contravening s.30AA of the Food Business Regulation, Cap. 132, which prohibits a permittee of a fresh provision shop license from allowing live poultry on the premises between 8:00PM of each day to 5:00AM the next day. On the evening of 4 September 2008, Asaduzzaman took four live chickens from …Read more
Tags: Avian influenza,
Cleanliness,
Food,
Food safety,
Food-borne diseases,
Safety regulation
Country:
China Year: 2010
Court: The Small Claims Tribunal, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Citation: SCTC15980/10; SCTC15981/10; SCTC15982/10; SCTC15983/10
Health Topics:
Child and adolescent health,
Diet and nutrition Human Rights: Right of access to information,
Right to bodily integrity,
Right to food Facts: The claimants, residents of Mainland China, were parents and their children who suffered physical injuries from consuming contaminated dairy products. The claimants sought monetary compensation from the defendant, from whom they had purchased the contaminated products. The defendant is a 43% material shareholder of Sanlu Group, the manufacturer and distributor of the products. The claimants …Read more
Tags: Child and adolescent health: Child development,
Children,
Compensation,
Diet and nutrition: Food safety,
Duty of care,
Infant health,
Minor,
Negligence,
Remedies,
Tort
Country:
Russia Year: 2010
Court: The European Court of Human Rights
Citation: Application no. 33099/08, ECHR 2010
Health Topics:
Chronic and noncommunicable diseases,
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
HIV/AIDS,
Hospitals,
Infectious diseases,
Medicines,
Prisons Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right to bodily integrity Facts: This case is about the conditions of the applicant’s detention and the sufficiency of his medical care while he was detained in remand centre no. IZ-71/1 and correctional colony no. 7 in the Tula region of the Russian Federation. On 18 October 2006, the applicant, a Russian national, was arrested for drug trafficking. He was …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs,
Access to health care,
Access to medicines,
Access to treatment,
Antiretrovirals,
ARVs,
Clinics,
Compensation,
Cruel treatment,
Custody,
Degrading treatment,
Detainee,
Detention,
Diagnostics,
Diet,
Duty of care,
Essential medicines,
Examination,
Food,
Health facilities,
Hepatitis PLHIV,
HIV,
HIV positive,
HIV status,
Humiliating treatment,
Imprisonment,
Inadequate treatment,
Incarceration,
Inhuman treatment,
Inmate,
Jail,
Liver disease,
Malnutrition,
People living with HIV/AIDS,
Prison conditions,
Public hospitals,
Remedies,
Standard of care,
Testing,
Torture,
Tuberculosis
Country:
Chile Year: 2009
Court: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Citation: Report No. 14/09, Petition 406-03, March 19, 2009; OEA/Ser.L/V/II., Doc. 51, corr. 1, 30 December 2009
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Environmental health,
Health information,
Public safety Human Rights: Freedom of expression,
Right of access to information,
Right to a clean environment,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to participation Facts: Miguel Ignacia Fredes Gonzalez and Ana Andrea Tuczek Fries, among others, filed an information request with the Agriculture and Livestock Service (the “SAG”), a department of the State’s Ministry of Agriculture, requesting information and documents related to transgenic crops and their location.The national director of the SAG failed to answer the request within the time …Read more
Tags: Awareness,
Biohazard,
Biosafety,
Contamination,
Disclosure,
Food safety,
Freedom of information,
Genetically-modified food,
Non-disclosure
Country:
Sudan Year: 2009
Court: African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Citation: Comm. No. 279/03-296/05 (2009).
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Disasters and emergencies,
Environmental health,
Health care and health services,
Medicines,
Sexual and reproductive health,
Violence,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Freedom of movement and residence,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to health,
Right to housing,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life,
Right to property Facts: The complainants, two human rights organizations based in Sudan, the United Kingdom and Canada, alleged gross and systematic violations of human rights on the part of the Republic of Sudan and Government-supported militia forces in the Darfur region against indigenous tribes, including the Fur, Marsalit and Zaghawa. The organizations alleged that since General Omar Al-Bashir …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs,
Access to health care,
Access to medicines,
Access to treatment,
Armed conflict,
Clean water,
Cruel and unusual punishment,
Cruel treatment,
Degrading treatment,
Drinking water,
Food,
Food shortages,
Forced displacement,
Humiliating treatment,
Indigenous groups,
Inhuman treatment,
Militias,
Poisoning,
Rape,
Refugees,
Safe drinking water,
Sexual abuse,
Sexual assault,
Sexual violence,
Torture,
Violence against women,
Water pollution
Country:
Uruguay Year: 2009
Court: Fifth Civil Court of Appeals
Citation: Judgment No. 90/2009; IUE: 2-25422/2009
Health Topics:
Child and adolescent health,
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services Human Rights: Right to life,
Right to social security Facts: This case involved plaintiffs (parents of a minor) who filed a writ for protection of fundamental rights (amparo action) against a private insurance company (the defendant), claiming that their infant had a right to receive a milk substitute health supplement called Neocate, financed by the private medical insurance company. The plaintiffs waited for four months …Read more
Tags: Child mortality,
Children,
Diet,
Food,
Health insurance,
Infant health,
Infant mortality,
Minor,
Out-of-pocket expenditures,
Pediatric health,
Reimbursement
Country:
Malawi Year: 2009
Court: High Court at Lilongwe
Citation: 2009 AHRLR 353 (MHC 2009)
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
Infectious diseases,
Prisons Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment Facts: Gable Masango, a prisoner serving a twelve-year prison term in Malawi, brought suit against Malawian government officials claiming the conditions of his and his fellow prisoners’ imprisonment violated the Republic of Malawi Constitution and the Prison Regulations of the Prisons Act (“Prison Regulations”). The prisoner alleged that the prison provided insufficient resources, including insufficient diet …Read more
Tags: Abuse,
Access to drugs,
Access to health care,
Access to medicines,
Access to treatment,
Cruel treatment,
Custody,
Degrading treatment,
Detainee,
Detention,
Diet,
Food,
Food shortages,
Hunger,
Imprisonment,
Incarceration,
Inhuman treatment,
Inmate,
Jail,
Malnutrition,
Prison conditions,
TB,
Torture,
Tuberculosis
Country:
Argentina Year: 2008
Court: Supreme Court of Justice [Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación Argentina]
Citation: Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación [CSJN] [National Supreme Court of Justice], 9/9/2008, "Núñez de Zanetti, Mónica c/ Famyl Salud s/ Amparo", (N. 289, L. XLIII)(Arg.)
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
Health systems and financing,
Medicines,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Right to health,
Right to life Facts: Mónica Núñez de Zanetti requested that the prepaid medical care company, Famyl S. A., pay for her parenteral nutrition, a life-saving diet she required as a result of a chronic small bowel resection she suffered. Famyl S.A. contended that it was not responsible for provide the nutritional services because Nuñez’s peritonitis was the result of …Read more
Tags: Abortion,
Access to health care,
Access to treatment,
Food,
Food safety,
Health spending