Authority: American Commission on Human rights

Date: 11/30/2016

Subject: The decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights sentenced the State for the violation of the right to personal integrity, freedom, dignity, to the respect for private and family life, to access to information, to build a family and to an effective remedy with regard to the case of I.V., who underwent tubectomy without being previously informed and in absence of any emergency; according to the Court, the sterilization was done without the woman’s consent

Parties: I.V. vs. Bolivia

Original language: Spanish

Classification: Dignity - Art. 1 Human dignity - Person - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity - Freedoms - Art. 6 Personal liberty - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 9 Right to found a family - Solidarity - Art. 35 Preventive health care - Justice - Art. 47 Right to an effective remedy before a tribunal

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