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Switzerland
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Corporate Accountability
Monitoring
OP-ICESCR
18
Jun
2015

Advancing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR):

The role of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on ESCR in securing access to justice at all levels

Welcome remarks: H.E Mr. Pedro Nuno ...

Glor, was declared unfit for mandatory military service or the alternative civil service offered to conscientious objector due to diabetes. He was ordered to pay a tax for exemption from military service, as he fell below the 40% disabled threshold for exemption from the tax. The tax was for a non-negligible amount assessed over several years. Glor claimed a violation of his rights under Article 14 in conjunction with Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights for discrimination on the basis of a disability.

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Country: 
Switzerland
Country: 
Switzerland
Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work: 
OP-ICESCR
Country: 
Switzerland
Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work: 
OP-ICESCR

Three brothers (V) lived in Switzerland from 1980 as recognised refugees. In 1987, they were expelled from Switzerland to Czechoslovakia for criminal offences. In September 1991, they illegally re-entered Switzerland.

Country: 
Switzerland
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System of Solidarity
Country: 
Switzerland
Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work: 
Women & ESCR
Corporate Accountability
Strategic Litigation
OP-ICESCR