Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Issues
Over the past year and a half, peaceful demonstrations that quickly devolved into government violence and repression across the Middle East and North Africa necessitated UN involvement and international alarm over restrictions on basic human rights. However, recently the UN…
Commissioners: Jose de Jesus Orozco Henriquez (President), Rosa Maria Ortiz, Felipe Gonzalez, Rodrigo Escobar Gil, Santiago Canton (Executive Secretary)
Petitioners: Alianza Ciudadana Pro Justicia, Fundación para el Debido Proceso Legal (DPLF), Fundación Andina para la Observación y Estudio de Medios…
Petitioners: Indian Resource Law Center, Centro de Estudios para la Justicia Social “Tierra Digna,” Asociación
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The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) averted a possible conflict with the United Kingdom in December by overturning a lower Chamber ruling that almost completely barred the use of hearsay evidence to convict…
At the Tenth Session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) from December 12 to 21, 2011, States Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC) voted in elections resulting in the largest change in…
In August 2011, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR, Court) lifted provisional measures it had issued in response to continuous acts of violence perpetrated by both guards and inmates at Urso Branco prison in Brazil. The improvement…
In November 2011, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR, Commission) created a Unit on the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Intersex Persons (Unit) to improve its ability to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, transgender, and…
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on November 3 that no census has emerged on the continent to make in vitro fertilization a human right that requires protection. The decision comes only four years after the ECtHR concluded…
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