Effective and full implementation of the right to health framework, including justiciability of ESCR and the right to health; the progressive realisation of the right to health; the accountability deficit of transnational corporations; and the current ... 2014, para. 13
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Courts are experienced in adjudicating the immediate obligation of non discrimination with regard to health. For example, in Eldrige v. British Columbia (Attorney General), the Supreme Court of Canada found that the Medical and Health Care Services Act discriminated against deaf and hard of hearing people because its lack of provision for sign language interpreters denied them equal benefits under the law.
Condicón jurídica
Non-negotiated soft law
Organismo
Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
Tipo de documento
Special Procedures' report
Medio de adopción
N.A.
Temas
Equality & Inclusion
Health
Año
2014
Tipo de párrafo
Other
Reference
SR Health, Report to the UNGA (2014), A/69/299, para. 13.