Pending complaints

Back No. 188/2019 Validity Foundation – Mental Disability Advocacy Centre v. Czech Republic

The complaint was registered on 5 December 2019. It concerns Article 11§1 (right to protection of health) of the European Social Charter (the 1961 Charter) and Article 4§3 (Right of elderly persons to social protection) of the 1988 Additional Protocol to the 1961 Charter. Validity alleges that the use of cage-beds and net-beds as a means of managing elderly persons and persons with disabilities in psychiatric hospitals in the Czech Republic constitutes a violation of the above mentioned provisions of the 1961 Charter and its 1988 Additional Protocol.

Case document No. 1, Complaint registered on 5 December 2019

Case document No. 2, Observations by the Government on admissibility

Case document No. 3, Submissions by the Government on the merits

Case document No. 4, Response from Validity Foundation to the Government's submissions on the merits

Case document No. 5, Further response by the Government on the merits

Case document No. 6, Additional information by the Government on the merits

Case document No. 7, Response from Validity Foundation to the Government's additional information

Case document No. 8, Additional response by the Government on the merits

The European Committee of Social Rights declared the complaint admissible on 9 September 2020.

Decision on admissibility of the Complaint No. 188/2019

Decision on the merits of the Complaint No. 188/2019

Resolution CM/ResChS(2024)1 adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 14 February 2024

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