Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Date: 11/22/2024

Subject: The judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights recognizes the State’s responsibility for the violation of the rights to personal integrity, to private life, and to health due to medical uncertainty and legal insecurity that resulted in obstetric violence inflicted on a woman experiencing a high-risk pregnancy

Parties: Beatriz y otros vs. El Salvador

Original language: Spanish

Classification: Dignity - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity - Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Solidarity - Art. 35 Preventive health care - Justice - Art. 47 Right to an effective remedy before a tribunal

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