| ID: |
HARP-009 |
| Title: |
Danning v. The Netherlands |
| Source: |
http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf |
| Parties: |
Complainants: L. G. Danning; State Party: The Netherlands |
| Dispute Resolution Organ: |
UN Human Rights Committee – First optional Protocol to the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| Year: |
1987 |
| Pages: |
0 |
| Author(s): |
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| Keywords: |
anti-discrimination, common law, discrimination, equality before the law, marital status, Netherlands |
| Abstract: |
The author is in a wheelchair as the result of an automobile accident. Benefits were awarded based on the marital status of the injured person. He claims that as he has been in a common law relationship, he should be entitled to the same level of benefits. The author claims that the disability legislation discriminates against unmarried people. |
| Secured: |
False |
| Download Article: |
Available here |
Keywords: anti-discrimination, common law, discrimination, equality before the law, marital status, the Netherlands
