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Attorney General and Others v. Tapela and Others, Court of Appeal Civil Case No. CACGB-096-14; Attorney General and Others v. Mwale, Court of Appeal Civil Case No. CACGB-076-15

In 2004 Botswana’s Secretary of Health circulated an internal directive to public medical facilities informing them of a Presidential Directive authorizing “provision of free treatment to non-citizen prisoners suffering from ailments other than AIDS.” HIV-positive Zimbabwean prisoners filed lawsuits challenging this directive after being denied free Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ARV).

International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) v. France, Complaint No. 13/2003

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.

Sentencia de la Corte Federal Constitucional en el caso 1 BvL 10/10

El Alto Tribunal Social de Renania del Norte-Westfalia le solicitó a la Corte Constitucional de Alemania que decida si los subsidios económicos entregados a los solicitantes de asilo conforme la sección 3, párrafo 2, de la Ley de Beneficios para Solicitantes de Asilo cumplían con el derecho constitucional a condiciones mínimas para una existencia digna.

Judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court in the proceeding 1 BvL 10/10

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.

Dorothy Ann Finch y otros contra la Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority

Los demandantes cuestionaron la decisión del Estado de Massachusetts de excluir a un grupo de inmigrantes legales del Programa de Seguro de Salud del Estado. Los demandantes alegaron que dicha exclusión viola la Cláusula de Igualdad de Protección reconocida por la Constitución de Massachusetts.

Dorothy Ann Finch and others v. Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority

Petitioners challenged the 2009 decision of the State of Massachusetts to exclude a group of legal immigrants from its Commonwealth Care Health Insurance Program. Plaintiffs alleged that such exclusion violated the Equal Protection Clause recognized by the Constitution of Massachusetts.

Centro por el Derecho a la Vivienda y Contra los Desalojos (COHRE) c/. Italia, Reclamación Colectiva Nro. 58/2009

El Comité Europeo de Derechos Sociales concluyó que Italia es responsable de políticas y prácticas que conducen a que los residentes romaníes y sinti vivan en viviendas segregadas y extremadamente inadecuadas, así como del desalojo forzoso de comunidades enteras y la expulsión de Italia de romaníes migrantes. En la decisión también se halló a Italia responsable del clima subyacente de racismo y xenofobia existente en el país.

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) v. Italy, Collective Complaint No. 58/2009

The decision holds Italy accountable for policies and practices that have resulted in Roma and Sinti residents living in segregated and grossly inadequate housing conditions, as well as forced eviction of entire communities and expulsion of migrant Roma from Italy. The case also held Italy accountable for the underlying racist and xenophobic climate created in Italy. The European Committee of Social Rights found that Romani camps have been destroyed and their inhabitants forcibly evicted and often expelled from Italy by state police or other representatives of the public authority, often

Reyes Aguilera, Daniela v. Argentina

The case was filed in March 2003 to force the Comisión Nacional de Pensiones Asistenciales (national agency in charge of welfare pensions) to grant a disability pension to Daniela Reyes Aguilera, a Bolivian girl who has a disabling condition preventing her from moving legs and arms, speaking, and eating on her own. Article 1, paragraph "e" of Decree 432/1997, which requires foreign citizens to prove legal residence in Argentina for at least twenty years in order to qualify for disability pensions, was contested as unconstitutional.

Reyes Aguilera, Daniela c/ Estado Nacional

El caso fue llevado a la justicia en el mes de marzo de 2003 para que se obligara a la Comisión Nacional de Pensiones Asistenciales a otorgar la pensión por invalidez a Daniela Reyes Aguilera, una niña de nacionalidad boliviana con una discapacidad que le impide la movilidad de sus miembros, comunicarse verbalmente, y alimentarse por cuenta propia.