Communication that Ms. A.S.'s rights were violated when a doctor in a public hospital performed a forced sterilization procedure without providing adequate information regarding the sterilization procedure to obtain Ms. A.S.'s free and informed consent; Requirements of free and informed consent; Right to decide the number and spacing of children; Right to access sexual and reproductive health education and family planning information; Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies; Equality and Non-discrimination.

Petition challenging the constitutionality of a ban on non-owner rickshaw drivers; Whether the opportunity to own a rickshaw is a protected right; Whether negative bans promoted social justice sufficient under Article 38 of the constitution; Whether judicial engineering promotes social justice better than strict legal interpretation; Whether the state has a duty to provide access to rickshaw ownership; Right to Access Justice; Right to Work; Judicial Engineering.

Lawsuit challenging Minister of Health decree 373/2009 establishing a new pricing system which constitutes a violation of the right to access medicines; Right to Health; Domestic Application of International Law.

Petition brought by pensioners to challenge the constitutionality of the state pension law, which temporarily restricted payment of pension funds; Right to social security; Domestic application of international law; Older person's rights.

Complaint against Kenyan government alleging violations under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, the Constitution of Kenya and international law, for the forced removal of the Endorois peoples from their ancestral lands; Violation of Land and Natural Resource Rights; Violation of Indigenous Rights; Freedom of Religious and Cultural Practices; Right to Development.

Challenge of a decision by UK national authorities that denied a Gypsy family permission to site caravan on land they owned; whether there was a violation of the right to enjoy the best state of physical and mental health; whether there was a violation of the prohibition of discrimination; special obligation regarding vulnerable and minority groups.

Review of 22 tutela* actions caused by situations that disregard the constitutional right to health in Colombia; Synthesis of the Colombian case law on the right to health; Court orders to correct structural failures in the Colombian public health system; Declaration of the right to health as a fundamental right; Access to quality and prompt sanitary services guaranteed by the right to health.

*A tutela is a special constitutional writ of protection of human rights. The tutela is a constitutional actions introduced by the Colombian Constitution of 1991, by virtue of which any citizen may directly request any judge in the country to protect his or her fundamental rights when they are being violated by a state agent or an individual to which the person is subordinated, and when there is no other legal action that can effectively be used to prevent the right violation from continuing. Judges must decide within a short period of time (ten days). Tutela petitions are decided by the tutela judge's hierarchic superiority, and all tutela decisions are automatically sent to the Constitutional Court, which can discretionally review any case. These cases are decided by different sections of the Court, each composed of three Justices. The Court can decide to review several tutela petitions on the same right simultaneously

Action by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) against the Director of Education for systematic sex discrimination within the Secondary School Places Allocation (SSPA) program; Whether the Director of Education's policies violated the fundamental right of equal treatment; Scope of Hong Kong's obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); Judicial Review of Education Policy; Right to Education on a basis of Non-discrimination; But for test of sex discrimination; Gender-based mechanisms; Application of the Principle of Proportionality.

Complaint alleging that the manner in which legislation related to housing is implemented in France resulted in a situation of non conformity with the right to housing; Article 31 (right to housing ) and Article E (non-discrimination) of the Revised European Social Charter; Housing Rights; Forced Evictions; Equality / Non-discrimination; Roma/Traveler's Rights.

Claim alleging the government of Zaire’s grave and massive violation of human rights under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights; violation of the right to enjoy the best state of physical and mental health; violation of the right to education.

FIDH claimed that France had violated the right to medical assistance by ending the exemption of poor illegal immigrants from charges for medical and hospital treatment; right to medical assistance for illegal migrants and their children; interpretation of provisions excluding illegal migrants from European Social Charter; rights of adult illegal migrants not violated but right of children to protection violated.

Complaint alleged that Myanmar's military subjected villagers to forced labor, rape, torture and murder with the knowledge and support of Unocal, a U.S. oil and gas corporation, which created liability under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ACTA)[1]; Whether to be liable under ATCA a non-state actor must engage in state action; Whether Unocal was liable for aiding and abetting the Myanmar military in subjecting villagers to forced labor, rape, murder and torture; Scope of the legal liability of  transnational corporations for violations of human rights under ATCA.

[1] The Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) provides non-citizens of the United States the opportunity to bring a civil suit in US courts for a tort (injury) committed in violation of the law of nations (international law).

Challenge to decision denying registration of Applicant as an internally displaced person; Whether a tutela action was the appropriate vehicle to enforce rights; Whether displaced persons have right to own and possess land taken by force; Burden of Proof; Domestic Application of International Law; Right to an Effective Remedy.

Application to European Court of Human Rights against decision of Slovakian courts stating that there was no right to photocopy medical records; Whether access to make handwritten notes from medical records is sufficient to fulfill the right to respect for family and private life under Article 8 of the ECHR; Whether the denying access to photocopy records necessary for litigation proceedings violates the right to a hearing before a tribunal under Article 6 § 1 of the ECHR; Right to Information on Sexual and Reproductive Health on a basis on non-discrimination and equality; Right to an Effective Remedy; Access to Justice.       

Case alleging violation of the right to have access to sufficient water under Section 27 of the South African Constitution; Reasonableness of the City's scheme to progressively realize the right to water within maximum available resources; Scope of the right of access to sufficient water; Legality of pre-paid water meters.

Complaint alleging the Spanish State’s failure to protect the home, private and family life of one of its citizens from the pollution caused by a waste treatment facility; violation of the right to respect for home, private and family life; relationship between the right to a healthy environment and the right to respect for private life, home and family life; state accountability for actions by private companies in its jurisdiction.

Complaint filed with the IACHD alleging failure to comply with court decision ordering the State to supply with drinking water a population exposed to water contaminated with lead and mercury, as well as to ascertain damages and provide necessary medical treatment. Violation of right to effective judicial protection.

Application to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal[1] challenging acquisition of agricultural land by the government of Zimbabwe; Whether Zimbabwe violated domestic and international treaty obligations; Jurisdiction of the Tribunal; Access to Judicial Remedies; Equality/Non-Discrimination; Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies.   

[1] The general jurisdiction of the Tribunal is to adjudicate as well as to give advisory opinions upon all matters which may be referred to it under the Treaty and Protocols, all subsidiary instruments adopted within the framework of the community, acts of Institutions of the Community, and all matters specifically provided for in any other agreements that Member States may conclude amongst themselves or within the Community and which confer jurisdiction on the Tribunal.

 Petition to challenge the constitutionality of a "capitation fee" imposed by private medical colleges, charging higher tuition to students that are not admitted to "government seats"; Whether the Indian Constitution guarantees a right to education; Whether such fees violate Art. 14 of the Constitution; Whether there was a violation of the provisions of the Karnataka Educational Institutions (Prohibition of Capitation Fee) Act; Relationship between the right to life and the right to education; Relationship between the dignity of man and the right to education; Equality Rights; Directive Principles; State Action/Agency.

Public interest litigation brought on behalf of civil society organizations working to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in India; Challenge to Section 377 of Indian Penal Code, which criminalizes consensual homosexual conduct; Discriminatory laws and policies impaired HIV/AIDS prevention measures; Domestic Application of International Law; Equality / Non-Discrimination. 

Application by the City of Johannesburg to the Johannesburg High Court for an order of eviction of 400 residents of inner city buildings, claiming unsafe and unhealthy living conditions; Whether the city had made reasonable provision of alternative housing for those it sought to evict; Whether the city's housing policy complied with section 26 of the Constitution; Due process requirements, including the right of meaningful participation.     

The appeal questioned the constitutionality of a norm requiring immigrants to prove 20 years of residence in Argentina to qualify for a disability pension; Right to Social Security on a basis of Non Discrimination; Legitimate restrictions to ESCR imposed by regulation; Regulation requiring differential treatment between national and foreign citizens with a disability.

Class action alleging that the Texas system for financing public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14^th Amendment of the United States Constitution; Whether there is a fundamental right to education under the U.S. Constitution; Whether the poor constitute a "suspect class" activating the Equal Protection Clause; Equality/non-discrimination; Right to education; Children's rights.

Challenge of law that stripped Indian woman of Indian status after marriage to non-Indian man; Whether lost cultural benefits has continued effect; What constitutes belonging to a minority group under Article 27 of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); Whether interference with Article 27 of ICCPR was equal to a breach of the provision; Whether denial of the right to live on reserve was reasonable and objective; Equality/Non-discrimination; Discrimination based on gender.

Admissibility decision in a case brought against the Republic of Nigeria, including the Universal Basic Education Commission - the legal entity responsible for implementing education in Nigeria - for failure to ensure quality education, under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR).  Whether the right to education is justiciable by the ECOWAS Court; Scope of the jurisdiction of the ECOWAS Court; Locus standi (whether the complainant has the legal right to initiate a lawsuit). 

Claim alleging a violation of health rights by South African health authorities when refusing renal dialysis treatment to a patient suffering from terminal illness; whether there has been a violation of the right to life; whether there has been a violation of the right to medical treatment; rationality review; allocation of resources; progressive realization.

Claim by Native American tribes against the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") for violating federal law in its decision to allow Barrick Cortez (of Barrick Gold Corporation) to construct the Cortez Hills gold mine in an area of great significance for the cultural and spiritual practices of the Western Shoshone Tribe; Violation of Indigenous Rights to Religious Practice; Indigenous Land Rights; Environmental Rights; Protection of Procedural Due Process Rights.

Three Czechs who were illegally residing in Switzerland challenged the denial of access to social welfare benefit; rights of non-nationals to social security; constitutional right to minimum conditions of existence implied from civil and political rights; justiciability of claims involving resource allocation.

Constitutional challenge to a city bylaw prohibiting temporary overhead shelters in public parks constructed by homeless people as violating the right to life, liberty and security of the person (under section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) in circumstances where there is a lack of sufficient alternative shelter; Justiciability of right to adequate housing; Positive and negative rights; Use of international human rights law and summary records to interpret domestic constitutional rights.