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Following the exhaustion of available legal avenues of redress in the Republic of Korea (Korea), this communication was submitted before the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Committee) in 2012. The case concerns mandatory tests for HIV/AIDS and illegal drugs use required of foreign teachers of English in Korea. Korean citizen teachers and ethnic Korean noncitizen teachers are not required to undergo such scrutiny.

En 2004, la Secretaría de Salud de Botswana distribuyó una directiva interna entre instituciones médicas públicas para informarles de un Decreto Presidencial que autorizaba “el suministro de tratamiento gratis a reclusos que no sean ciudadanos que sufran de enfermedades que no sean el SIDA”. Reclusos de Zimbabwe con VIH positivo presentaron demandas para cuestionar ea decreto después de que se les negaran medicamentos de una terapia antiretroviral (TAR).

The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) claimed in a petition before the European Committee of Social Rights (which judges compliance of State parties with the European Social Charter) that France had violated the right to medical assistance (Article 13 of the Revised European Social Charter) by ending the exemption of illegal immigrants, with very low incomes, from charges for medical and hospital treatment.

The Higher Social Court of North Rhine-Westphalia asked the German Federal Constitutional Court to decide whether the cash benefits for asylum seekers provided under section 3 paragraph 2 of the Asylum Seekers Benefit Act comply with the constitutional right to a minimum standard of living.