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| Specific
Instruments |
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Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons |
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| Date of adoption:
9/6/1994 |
Entry into
force:
28/3/1996 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Inter-american Convention on International Traffic in Minors |
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| Date of adoption:
18/3/1994 |
Entry into
force:
15/8/1997 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Inter-american Convention on the Nationality of Women |
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| Date of adoption:
26/12/1933 |
Entry into
force:
29/8/1934 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women |
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| Date of adoption:
2/5/1948 |
Entry into
force:
17/3/1949 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women |
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| Date of adoption:
2/5/1948 |
Entry into
force:
29/12/1954 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Inter-american Convention on Support Obligations |
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| Date of adoption:
15/7/1989 |
Entry into
force:
6/3/1996 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Inter-american Convention on Conflict of Laws Concerning the Adoption of Minors |
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| Date of adoption:
24/5/1984 |
Entry into
force:
26/5/1988 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Inter-American Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression |
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| Date of adoption:
10/2000 |
Entry into
force:
- |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Inter-american Convention on the International Return of Children |
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| Date of adoption:
15/7/1989 |
Entry into
force:
4/11/1994 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
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| Date of adoption:
26/2/1997 |
Entry into
force:
- |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Interamerican Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (Draft) |
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| Date of adoption:
18/9/1995 |
Entry into
force:
2000 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities |
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| Date of adoption:
7/6/1999 |
Entry into
force:
14/9/2001 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture |
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| Date of adoption:
9/12/1985 |
Entry into
force:
28/2/1987 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty |
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| Date of adoption:
8/6/1990 |
Entry into
force:
28/8/1991 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: "Protocol of San Salvador" |
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| Date of adoption:
17/11/1988 |
Entry into
force:
16/11/1999 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Inter-american Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and
Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belem do Para) |
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| Date of adoption:
9/6/1994 |
Entry into
force:
5/3/1995 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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| General
Instruments |
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Statute of the Inter-american Commission on Human Rights |
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| Date of adoption:
10/1979 |
Entry into
force:
11/1979 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Statute of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights |
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| Date of adoption:
10/1979 |
Entry into
force:
1/1/1980 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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American Convention on Human Rights (Pact of San Jose, Costa Rica) |
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| Date of adoption:
22/11/1969 |
Entry into
force:
18/7/1978 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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Charter of the Organization of American States |
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| Date of adoption:
30/4/1948 |
Entry into
force:
13/12/1951 |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man |
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| Date of adoption:
2/5/1948 |
Entry into
force:
- |
| System of protection:
Organization of American States |
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| Articles |
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L'intégration des Amériques avant 1948: une voie tortueuse |
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Claude MORIN |
| Latest update:
16/07/2003 |
First published:
6/6/2000 |
| Reference:
Communication au Colloque "Le Canada dans la continentalisation des Amériques: bilan et perspectives", Chaire Téléglobe Raoul-Dandurand, UQAM, 16-17 octobre 1997 |
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The integration of the Americas before 1948. |
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The Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights |
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Veronica GOMEZ |
| Latest update:
29/01/2003 |
First published:
1997 |
| Reference:
Human Rights Law Centre Journal, Nottingham University |
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This manuscript is an attempt to comment briefly on the evolution of the Inter-American System and its present functioning. |
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Le système interaméricain de protection des droits de l'homme |
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Alain-Robert NADEAU |
| Latest update:
28/01/2003 |
First published:
1/11/2001 |
| Reference:
Le Journal du Barreau, Vol. 33, N°18, 1er nov. 2001 |
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Short introduction to the Inter-American System of Human Rights |
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La pertinence du système interaméricain de protection des droits de la personne |
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Carol HILLING |
| Latest update:
28/01/2003 |
First published:
1/12/2001 |
| Reference:
Le Journal du Barreau, Volume 33 - numéro 20 - 1er décembre 2001 |
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Pertinence of the Inter-American System of Human Rights - Canada |
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The Future of the Inter-American Human Rights System |
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David PADILLA |
| Latest update:
28/10/2002 |
First published:
1995 |
| Reference:
Human Rights Brief, Washington College of Law, American University, Volume 3, Number 1, Fall 1995 |
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"The principal problem facing the Inter-American Human Rights System is that we have been too successful. Since 1990, the Commission's published product has increased five-fold". |
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| Websites |
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
| Languages:
English Spanish |
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Official Website of the Court -Information - Jurisprudence - Press releases - Publications - Human Rights Library - Digital library - Links to other international courts, etc. - News. The Spanish version is more complete than the English. |
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Inter-american Commission of Human Rights |
| Languages:
English French Portuguese Spanish |
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Official website of the Commission - Reports - Case-Law - Documents - etc. |
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| Selected
Case Law |
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OC18/03 Legal status and rights of the illegal migrant workers |
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| Date:
17/9/2003 |
| Decision-making body:
Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
| Legal reference:
OC18/03 |
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Migrant workers - Jus cogens and human rights - Obligations Erga Omnes. |
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| Case Law
Websites |
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Inter-american Commission of Human Rights |
| Languages:
English French Portuguese Spanish |
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Official website of the Commission - Reports - Case-Law |
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
| Languages:
English Spanish |
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Search the case law of the Inter-American Court. |
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Repertorio de Jurisprudencia del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos |
| Languages:
Spanish |
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Directory of the case law of the Inter-American Court 1980 - 1997. |
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Washington College of Law - Inter-American Human Rights Database |
| Languages:
English Spanish |
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Annual reports, reports on sessions and special reports of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights. |
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| Reports |
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Enhancing Canada's Role in the OAS: Canadian Adherence to the American Convention on Human Rights |
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Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights / Comité sénatorial permanent des droits de la personne |
Date:
5/2003 |
| Reference:
- |
| Source:
Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights |
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In November 2002, the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights received a second mandate to study and report on Canada's possible adherence to the American Convention on Human Rights. The role of the Committee was to review Canadian participation in the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights and make recommendations on whether or not Canada should ratify the American Convention on Human Rights.
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Report on Terrorism and Human Rights |
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OAS |
Date:
22/10/2002 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.116, Doc. 5 rev. 1 corr., 22 October 2002 |
| Source:
OAS |
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The Commission’s report concludes with a series of specific recommendations that are intended to guide member states in implementing the rules and principles articulated in the Commission’s analysis.
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Annual Report 2001 |
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights / Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
16/4/2001 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser./L/V/II.114 doc. 5 rev. 16 avril 2001 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 2000 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
16/4/2001 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser./L/V/II.111 doc. 20 rev. 16 April 2001 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1998 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
16/4/1999 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.102 doc. 6 rev. 16 April 1999 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1999 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
13/4/1999 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.106 doc. 6 rev. 13 April 1999 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1997 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
13/4/1998 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.98 doc. 6 rev. 13 April 1998 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1996 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
14/3/1997 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.95 doc. 7 rev. 14 March 1997 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Prisons in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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Human Rights Watch |
Date:
1997 |
| Reference:
Human Rights Watch Prison Project |
| Source:
Human Rights Watch |
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"The past few years have been dramatic ones in Latin American and Caribbean prisons, which hold a total of over half a million inmates. Conditions continue to stagnate -- and even to worsen in some countries -- inspiring dramatic and violent forms of prisoner protest. Massacres, riots, and other violent incidents have been occurring in prisons across the region, providing further evidence of the widespread failure of Latin America's penal systems". |
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Annual report 1995 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
28/2/1996 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L./V/II.91 doc. 7 rev. 28 February 1996 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1994 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
17/2/1995 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.88 doc. 9 rev. 17 February 1995 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1993 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
11/2/1994 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.85 doc. 8 rev. 11 February 1994 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1992-1993 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
12/3/1993 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser./L/V/II.83 doc. 14 corr. 1 12 March 1993 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1991 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
14/2/1992 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.81 doc. 6 rev. 1 14 February 1992 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1990-1991 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
22/2/1991 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.79.rev.1 doc. 12 22 February 1991 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1989-1990 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
17/5/1990 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.77 rev.1 doc. 7 17 May 1990 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1988-1989 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
18/9/1989 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.76 doc. 10 18 September 1989 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1987-1988 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
16/9/1988 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.74 doc. 10 rev. 1 16 September 1988 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1986-1987 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
22/9/1987 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.71 doc. 9 rev. 1 22 September 1987 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1985-1986 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
26/9/1986 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L doc. 8 rev. 1 26 September 1986 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1984-1985 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
1/10/1985 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.66 doc. 10 rev. 1 1 October 1985 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1983-1984 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
28/9/1984 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.63 doc. 10 28 September 1984 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1981-1982 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
20/9/1982 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.57 doc. 6 rev. 1 20 September 1982 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1980-1981 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
16/10/1981 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.54 doc. 9 rev. 1 16 October 1981 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1979-1980 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
2/10/1980 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.50 doc. 13 rev. 1 2 October 1980 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1978 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
29/6/1979 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.47 doc. 13 rev. 1 29 June 1979 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1977 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
20/4/1978 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.43 doc. 21 corr. 1 20 April 1978 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1976 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
10/3/1977 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/VII.40 doc. 5 corr.1 10 March 1977 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1975 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
28/6/1976 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.37 doc. 20 corr. 1 28 June 1976 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1974 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
30/12/1974 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.34 doc. 31 rev. 1 31 December 1974 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1973 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
14/2/1974 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.32 doc. 3 rev. 2 14 Februari 1974 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1972 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
6/3/1972 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II/.27 doc. 11 rev. 6 March 1972 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1970 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
12/3/1971 |
| Reference:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.25 doc.9 (espanol) rev. 12 March 1971 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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Annual report 1971 |
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Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme |
Date:
3/2/1971 |
| Reference:
OAS/Ser.L/V/II/.27 doc. 11 rev. 6 March 1972 |
| Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
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| Books |
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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
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|
Scott DAVIDSON |
| Reference:
Aldershot, Dartmouth, 1992 |
| Languages:
English |
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The IACHR in context - Structure and Procedure - Contentious Jurisdiction - Advisory Jurisdiction - Developing jurisprudence - Evolving concepts, current problems and future prospects. |
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The Inter-American Human Rights System |
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Scott DAVIDSON |
| Reference:
Aldershot, Dartmouth, 1997 |
| Languages:
English |
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The Inter-American System - The Commission - The Court - Individual Applications before the Commission and before the Court - Advisory Jurisdiction of the Court - Rights protected. |
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El futuro de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos |
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Antônio Augusto CANçADO TRINDADE - Manuel VENTURA ROBLES |
| Reference:
San José, Costa Rica, Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 2003 |
| Languages:
Spanish |
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The future of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
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La nueva dimensión de las necesidades de protección del ser humano en el inicio del siglo XXI |
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Antônio Augusto CANçADO TRINDADE - Jaime RUIZ DE SANTIAGO |
| Reference:
San José, Costa Rica, Corte Interamerican de Derechos Humanos, 2003 |
| Languages:
Spanish |
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The new dimension of the need of protection of the human being at the dawn of the 21st Century |
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Regional Human Rights |
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Alfred GLENN MOWER |
| Reference:
New York - Westport, Connecticut - London, Studies in Human Rights, Number 12, Greenwood Press, 1991 |
| Languages:
English |
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A comparative study of the West European and Inter-American Systems |
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Code de droit international des droits de l'homme |
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Olivier DE SCHUTTER - Françoise TULKENS - Sébastien VAN DROOGHENBROECK |
| Reference:
Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2003 |
| Languages:
French |
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2nd edition (updated to May 1st, 2003) of this collection of the main international instruments (as well universal as regional) regarding the protection of fundamental human rights. |
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El Sistema Interamericano de Proteccion de los Derechos Humanos en el Umbral del Siglo XXI |
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Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Ed. |
| Reference:
San José, Costa Rica, ISBN 9977-36-092-8, Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 2001 |
| Languages:
Spanish |
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The inter-American system of human rights at the dawn of the XXI Century. |
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La jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos |
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Sergio Garcia Ramirez Ed. |
| Reference:
Mexico, ISBN 968-36-9758-5, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2001 |
| Languages:
Spanish |
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Case Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights up to November 2001 |
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Protecting Human Rights in the Americas: Cases and Materials |
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Thomas Buergenthal & Dinah Shelton Ed. |
| Reference:
Strasbourg, ISBN 3-88357-122-9, N.P. Engel Publisher, 1995 |
| Languages:
English |
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This book focuses on the inter-American legal norms, institutions and procedures concerned with human rights. The developing jurisprudence of the inter-American Court is emphasized. |
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| Periodicals |
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Actualité et Droit International |
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| Reference:
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| Contact:
despretz@ridi.org |
http://www.ridi.org/adi/ |
| Languages:
French |
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E-journal of international news legal analysis.
Articles (archive from 1998, quick search), chronicles and cases, discussions, international news, announcements. Useful links. |
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Droits Fondamentaux |
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| Reference:
Paris, |
| Contact:
despretz@toile.org |
http://www.droits-fondamentaux.org/ |
| Languages:
French |
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First electronic journal in French on Fundamental Rights. |
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Human Rights Brief - Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law |
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| Reference:
Washington, Washington College of Law |
| Contact:
hrbrief@wcl.american.edu |
http://www.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief/ |
| Languages:
English |
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The Human Rights Brief reports about developments in international human rights and humanitarian law, as well as provides concise legal analysis of current human rights issues.
Search by Volume / Issue / Title / Author. Archive since Spring 1994. |
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| Human Rights
Actors |
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Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos (AMDH) |
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http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/arc/amdh/ |
Type:Research / Education |
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Founded in 1984 by a multi-disciplinary group, AMDH is active in the fields of research, teaching and human rights promotion in Mexico. Its main programs concern: Education, Human Rights, Media, Documentation and Communication. |
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Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (WCL) |
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http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/humright/ |
Type:Research / Education |
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Research center of the American University Washington College of Law. Publishes "the Human Rights Brief". |
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Inter-American Children's Institute (IIN) |
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http://www.iin.org.uy |
Type:International or Regional Organization |
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A specialized organization of the OAS in children issues, aims to protect the welfare of the region's children, having as a conceptual reference the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Juridical, social, health and education concerns. |
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Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) |
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http://www.oas.org/CIM/ |
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A Specialized Organization of the OAS. The first official intergovernmental agency in the world created expressly to ensure recognition of the civil and political rights of women. Provides support and recognition to national women's movements. |
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) |
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http://www.cidh.oas.org/ |
Type:International or Regional Organization |
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is one of two bodies in the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human rights. |
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) |
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http://www.corteidh.or.cr/ |
Type:International or Regional Organization |
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Autonomous judicial institution of the Inter-American system of human rights. Its objective is to apply and interpret the American Convention on Human Rights. It was established with the intention of resolving cases of alleged violations. |
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Organization of American States (OAS) |
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http://www.oas.org |
Type:International or Regional Organization |
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Priorities: Strengthening freedom of speech and thought as a basic human right; Promoting greater participation by civil society in decision-making;
Addressing the problem of illegal drugs; and
Supporting a Free Trade Area of the Americas. |
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