inter-american human rights
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The Inter-American Human Rights System
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Inter American Human Rights system: Key web sites & documents
• OAS - http://www.oas.org/• Charter of the OAS @ http://
www.oas.org/juridico/english/charter.html • Treaties @ http://www.oas.org/DIL/treaties.htm• American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man@
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/oasinstr/zoas2dec.htm• American Convention on Human Rights @
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/oasinstr/zoas3con.htm
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Has information on the work OAS does as well as a topic section including a section on Human Rights
Documents include the Charter of the OAS, treaties and other legal documents
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Inter American Human Rights system: The Commission
• Inter American Commission on Human Rights @ http://www.cidh.org/DefaultE.htm– Reports adopted by the Commission @
http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/humright/digest/index.html
• Finding cases before the Commission– Cases section of the Commission web site– University of Minnesota index to Commission cases
@ http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/cases/commissn.htm
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Cases
Background information including relationship of Commission and Court
Reports from special rapporteurs, country reports, cases, work with the court
Documents on specific topics such as migrant workers
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University of Minnesota pages on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
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Inter American Human Rights system: The Court
• @ http://www.corteidh.or.cr/• University of Minnesota - Basic Documents / jurisprudence @
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/iachr/iachr.html• Reports
– Series A – Judgments and opinions (Advisory cases)– Series B – Pleadings, Oral Arguments and Documents (relating to
series A)– Series C – Decisions and judgments (Contentious cases)– Series D - Pleadings, Oral Arguments and Documents (relating to series
C)– Series E - Provisional measures
• Finding Cases online– Court web site (as above) – Spanish versions appear first– University of Minnesota (as above) - Judgments, opinions and decisions
plus related documents – Worldlii (most recent judgment available 2006)
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Statute of the court, rules of procedure, composition, history etc
•Browse judgments chronologically or by country•Decisions and judgments =series c (contentious)•Advisory = series A •Text in word / pdf
Annual reports – includes cases
Search for judgment by keywords or by country/date range
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Documents, including case law from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from the University of Minnesota
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Worldlii Human Rights case law under international library at
http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/
Inter-American cases