human rights

The minor applicant, a member of the Hazara ethnic group, illegally immigrated to Austria with her parents and four minor siblings from Afghanistan when she was approximately nine years old. The Federal Asylum Agency of Austria (“FAAA”) denied her and her family’s petitions for asylum. The Asylum Court reversed the denial, finding that the FAAA erred in summarily denying asylum based on the applicant’s statements without considering outside credible reports or sources relevant to the applicant’s asylum claim.

Direct Action of Unconstitutionality by Omission No. 26 and Writ of Injunction No. 4733 – Federal Supreme Court (2019)

This report reviews a study of the strategies used by local actors to operationalize reparations for victims of human rights violations, while highlighting the synergies between these efforts and sustainable development. This is based on the fieldwork of ICTJ and its partners in four areas: Colombia, The Gambia, Tunisia, and Uganda. The report presents findings from the comparative study and offers practical guidance and policy recommendations on how to advance reparations and sustainable development.
 

Sexual Violence and Rape, Torture, Indigenous Populations, Failure of State Responsibility. The Mexican military illegally detained, raped, and tortured the Tzeltal native sisters Ana, Beatriz, and Celia González Pérez. The Mexican State argued that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) did not have competence to review the petition because the sisters did not exhaust their domestic remedies.

Articles 7-9 of the Law on Equal Opportunities and Treatment between Women and Men (202/2002) - equal opportunity employment

Article 6 of the Law on Equal Opportunities and Treatment between Women and Men (202/2002) - gender-based discrimination

The Bahamas is a signatory to the human rights treaty on the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence Against Women, also known as the Convention of Belém do Pará, which was ratified in May of 1995. This Convention establishes a framework to prevent and eradicate all forms of violence against women in both the public and private spheres, including physical, psychological, and sexual violence.

The plaintiff was a 59 year-old male employee who was fired following his failure to disclose documents that he received from a customer. He filed suit in the Shelby County Circuit Court alleging both age and sex discrimination in violation of the Tennessee Human Rights Act. He asserted that a female employee in a similar situation was treated more favorably and that the firing was a pretext for replacing him with a younger female employee.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) submitted the case Carrión y Otros v. Nicaragua to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights concerning Nicaragua’s international responsibility for failing to properly investigate the death of Carrión. She was in the process of divorce and had custody of her son when she was found dead at home. The medical examiner classified the death as suicide, but her family disputed this, citing her ex-partner’s history of violence.

In Case of M.G.C. v. Romania, an 11-year-old was sexually assaulted multiple times by a fifty-two-year-old man and five teenagers, resulting in her pregnancy. With the approval of her parents, she was able to terminate the pregnancy.