Tortura, tratamiento cruel, inhumano y degradante

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Caselaw

LMR contra Argentina (UN Doc. CCPR/C/101/D/1608/2007)

LMR es una joven que nació 4 de mayo de 1987, viven con su madre, VDA, en Argentina. LMR tiene una edad mental entre 8 y 10 años. Durante un control en el hospital se diagnosticó que estaba embarazada. Según la sección 82.6 del Código Penal Argentino el aborto es legal cuando el embarazo es resultado de una violación de una mujer con discapacidad mental. LMR presentó una denuncia policial y programó un aborto. Su aborto fue impedido por una orden judicial contra el hospital. LMR apeló infructuosamente a la Cámara Civil.

Caso de N Contra El Reino Unido

La demandante, Sra. N, ciudadana ugandesa, entró en el Reino Unido en marzo de 1998. Estaba gravemente enferma y fue diagnosticada con VIH. Completó una solicitud de asilo a los pocos días, alegando que había sido violada por el Movimiento de Resistencia Nacional en Uganda debido a su asociación con el Ejército de Resistencia del Señor (Lord's Resistance Army). En agosto de 1998, la Sra. N desarrolló el Sarcoma de Kaposi.

R. (Adam and Limbuela) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department

The claimants in this joined action were asylum-seekers who had sought asylum after their initial entry to the UK. The defendant, Secretary of State for the Home Department, refused support under Section 55 of the Nationality, Immigration, and Asylum Act 2002 ("the Act") with regard to accommodation. Section 55 allowed refusal of support to asylum seekers who failed to make their claim as soon as reasonably practicable.

Case of N v. The United Kingdom

The applicant, Ms. N, a Ugandan national, entered the UK in March 1998. She was seriously ill and was diagnosed as HIV positive. She completed an asylum application within a few days, claiming she had been raped by the National Resistance Movement in Uganda because of her association with the Lord's Resistance Army. In August 1998, Ms. N developed Kaposi's sarcoma. In March 2001, a physician prepared an expert report which expressed that without regular antiretroviral treatment and monitoring, the applicant's life expectancy would be less than one year.

Mosetlhanyane y otros c/. Procurador General del Estado de Botsuana, apelación civil nro. CACLB-074-10

En 1985, la empresa minera De Beers perforó un pozo con fines exploratorios y parte del agua fue provista a asentamientos ubicados dentro de la Reserva. Posteriormente, el gobierno desalojó y reubicó a la comunidad basarwa fuera de la Reserva, aduciendo que los asentamientos humanos no eran compatibles con la preservación de la fauna y flora. En un intento de disuadir a los basarwa de volver, también fue desmantelado el pozo de perforación, dado que era la única fuente de agua en un radio de 40 km a la redonda.

Mosetlhanyane and others v. Attorney General of Botswana, Civil Appeal No. CACLB-074-10

In 1985 De Beers mining company drilled a borehole for prospecting purposes and some of the water was supplied to settlements in CKGR. The Government later evicted and resettled the Basarwa outside of the CKGR because they felt that human settlements were incompatible with the conservation of wildlife in the preserve. In an attempt to dissuade the Basarwa from returning, the borehole was also dismantled as it was the only source of water within 40km. In 2006, in the Sesana case, the Court found that this eviction was unconstitutional and allowed the Basarwa to return to the CKGR.

El Centro por el Derecho a la Vivivenda contra los Desalojos (COHRE) v. Sudán, Comunicacíon 296/2005

Desde febrero de 2003, tras el inicio de un conflicto armado en la región de Darfur del Sudán, miembros de la milicia llamada Janjaweed se dieron a la tarea de desalojar por la fuerza, matar y violar a miles de indígenas negros de la región. Los peticionantes adujeron que tales actos constituían la omisión del gobierno de Sudán de respetar y proteger los derechos del pueblo de Darfur y, en particular, violaban los artículos 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12 (1), 14, 16, 18 (1) y 22 de la Carta Africana de Derechos Humanos y de los Pueblos.

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) v. Sudan, Communication 296/2005

Since February 2003, following the emergence of an armed conflict in the Darfur region of the Sudan, militiamen known as Janjaweed have engaged in forcibly evicting, killing, and raping thousands of Black indigenous people in that region. The complainants alleged these acts were a failure of the government of Sudan to respect and protect the rights of the people of Darfur and in particular violated articles 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12 (1), 14, 16, 18 (1) and 22 of the African Charter on Human and People's Rights. In affirming admissibility of the complaint, the Commission quoted its decisi

Free Legal Assistance Group and Others v. Zaire, Comm. No. 25/89, 47/90, 56/91, 100/93

The claims brought by four NGOs against former Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) alleging a gross mismanagement of public finances by the government leading to degrading conditions, shortages of medicine, education and basic services. The government allegedly failed to provide these services impairing its people from obtaining adequate medical treatment and from accessing basic education.

Case of the Street Children (Villagrán-Morales et al.) v. Guatemala

A petition was filed with the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) against the State of Guatemala alleging the kidnapping, torture and death of four minors and the murder of a fifth one in 1990, in the city of Guatemala, by members of the security forces, and the State's failure to provide adequate judicial protection to the victims' families.