Posted by simonecusack on 15 March 2012 · Comments Off
The Lenin District Court of Belarus found Inga Abramova guilty of ‘minor hooliganism’ for hanging ribbons and posters calling for participation in the ‘European March.’ It subsequently ordered her to serve five days administrative arrest. Abramova claimed that, during her detention, a male staff member subjected her to a body search, touched her inappropriately, … Read more
Filed under Belarus, CEDAW 7(b), CEDAW art 1, CEDAW art 2(a), CEDAW art 2(b), CEDAW art 2(d), CEDAW art 2(e), CEDAW art 2(f), CEDAW art 3, CEDAW art 5(a), Cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, Detention, Failure to exhaust domestic remedies, Failure to substantiate claim, General Recommendation No 19, ICCPR, Inga Abramova v Belarus, OP art 4(1), OP art 4(2)(c), Privacy, Sexual harassment, Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, Torture and other cruel, UN Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners... · Tagged with Belarus, CEDAW art 1, CEDAW art 2(a), CEDAW art 2(b), CEDAW art 2(d), CEDAW art 2(e), CEDAW art 2(f), CEDAW art 3, CEDAW art 5(a), CEDAW art 7(b), Cruel, Detention, failure to exhaust domestic remedies, failure to substantiate claim, General Recommendation No. 19, ICCPR, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, OP CEDAW art 4(1), OP CEDAW art 4(2)(c), privacy, sexual harassment, torture
Posted by simonecusack on 7 March 2012 · Comments Off
V.K., a Bulgarian national, claimed that her husband, F.K., subjected her to varied forms of domestic violence. In 2006, V.K. moved to Poland with her husband and their children. In 2007, following continued abuse, V.K. filed an application for protective measures and financial maintenance with the Warsaw District Court, but the proceedings went unresolved. … Read more
Filed under Bulgaria, CEDAW art 1, CEDAW art 16, CEDAW art 2(a), CEDAW art 2(b), CEDAW art 2(c), CEDAW art 2(e), CEDAW art 2(f), CEDAW art 2(g), CEDAW art 5(a), Domestic and family violence, Due diligence, Extraterritoriality, Failure to substantiate claim, Fair trial, Gender stereotyping, General Recommendation No 19, Interim measures, OP art 4(2)(c), OP art 5, V.K. v. Bulgaria · Tagged with CEDAW art 1, CEDAW art 16, CEDAW art 2(a), CEDAW art 2(b), CEDAW art 2(c), CEDAW art 2(e), CEDAW art 2(f), CEDAW art 2(g), domestic and family violence, due diligence, extraterritoriality, failure to substantiate claim, fair trial, gender stereotyping, General Recommendation No. 19, interim measures, OP CEDAW art 4(2)(c), OP CEDAW art 5
Posted by simonecusack on 13 February 2012 · Comments Off
In 1996, Karen Tayag Vertido worked as Executive Director of the Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the Philippines. She filed a complaint against the then President of the Chamber, Jose B. Custodio, accusing him of raping her. She alleged that the accused offered her a lift home following a business meeting … Read more
Filed under CEDAW art 2(c), CEDAW art 2(d), CEDAW art 2(f), CEDAW art 5(a), Due diligence, Effective remedy, Failure to exhaust domestic remedies, Fair trial, Gender stereotyping, General Recommendation No 19, Karen Tayag Vertido v The Philippines, OP art 4(1), Rape and sexual assault, Remedy, The Philippines · Tagged with CEDAW art 2(c), CEDAW art 2(d), CEDAW art 2(f), CEDAW art 5(a), due diligence, effective remedy, failure to exhaust domestic remedies, fair trial, gender stereotyping, General Recommendation No. 19, OP CEDAW art 4(1), rape and sexual assault, remedy, The Philippines
Posted by simonecusack on 6 February 2012 · Comments Off
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) has found that Peru, by denying a minor who had been sexually abused access to therapeutic abortion and delaying necessary spinal surgery that contributed to her paralysis, violated articles 2(c), 2(f), 3, 5 and 12 of the Convention on the Elimination of All … Read more
Filed under OP art 4(1), CEDAW art 1, CEDAW art 2(c), CEDAW art 5(a), Failure to exhaust domestic remedies, CEDAW art 2(f), CEDAW art 3, CEDAW art 12, CEDAW art 16(1)(e), Health, Peru, Disability, Rape and sexual assault, Minor, Gender stereotyping, Effective remedy, Remedy, L.C. v. Peru · Tagged with CEDAW art 1, CEDAW art 12, CEDAW art 16(1)(e), CEDAW art 2(c), CEDAW art 2(f), CEDAW art 3, CEDAW art 5(a), disability, effective remedy, failure to exhaust domestic remedies, gender stereotyping, health, minor, OP CEDAW art 4(1), Peru, rape and sexual assault, remedy
