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China Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Amnesty International authored "China Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)" which was submitted to the CESCR in April 2013. The detailed submission...

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Shadow Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

Articulación Feminista por la Libertad de Decidir submitted a Shadow Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. Made in October 2012, the submission addresses discrimination, trafficking and prostitution, education, employment, health, and...

CEDAW Shadow Report Cyprus 2012

This shadow report on the Cyprus Government’s combined 6th and 7th periodic report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) addresses the discrimination against migrant women. The report also endeavours to underline the extremely vulnerable position of migrant...

Undocumented Workers v. United States of America, IACHR, Report No. 50/16, Case 12.834, Merits (Publication)

Undocumented workers should be granted equal rights, states the Inter-American Commission

Leopoldo Zumaya and Francisco Berumen Lizalde were both injured on the job while working without work authorization in the United States. Each sustained long-term physical damage and were denied access to compensation solely because of their immigration status. Mr. Zumaya filed a workers’ compensation claim but had to settle for a fraction of what he would have received if he had been a U.S. legal permanent resident or citizen. Mr. Lizalde was arrested and deported to Mexico – seemingly in direct response to his workers’ compensation claim – and therefore was unable to pursue it.

Members mobilize for human rights in response to the Trump administration

The United States government threatened to systematically undermine the human rights of communities in the US, and around the world, during the first week following the inauguration of President Donald Trump. In the days immediately following Trump’s election, the...

Minority Rights launches 4-year campaign to support minority and indigenous people

ESCR-Net member Minority Rights Group launched a four-years campaign to support the...

L.G. v. Republic of Korea, CERD/C/86/D/51/2012 Communication No. 51/2012

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.

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.

ESCR-Net Legal Opinion – HRC, Toussaint v. Canada

This legal opinion is presented in response to a request by the Author to provide an expert view on issues raised in Communication No. 2348/2014 that may be of assistance to the Human Rights Committee (Committee).

The members of ESCR-Net’s Strategic Litigation...