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Laws, 2021 The overwhelming majority of unsuccessful petitions in the Organization of American States’ Inter-American human rights system are unsuccessful because they are dismissed at the pre-admissibility or admissibility phase rather than at the merits phase ...
Simon Zschirnt
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Human Rights Quarterly, 2009 This article examines the historical origins of the Inter-American human rights system and key achievements of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights over the past fifty years. It explores the Commission’s use of on sight visits and country reports to expose human rights violations of military governments during the 1970s and its increased ...
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Corruption and Human Rights in the Case Law of Inter-American Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Review of European and Comparative Law, 2022 The first attempts to combat corruption date back to ancient times and had mainly moral connotation. Despite being an old phenomena, nowadays it takes new shapes and becomes a more common feature of social life, especially in the Latin America region ...
Edyta Lis
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Jurídicas, 2021 The present article focuses on the InterAmerican System for the Protection of Human Rights (Inter-American System) in the context of disability. It addresses several relevant issues regarding complaint mechanisms.
Adriana Caballero Pérez +1 more
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Utrecht Law Review, 2021 From a Latin-American perspective, even in a context where the rule of law has been under attack or has been very weak, the role of human rights NGOs has been and is very relevant in terms of documenting human rights violations, and seeking and bringing ...
Clara Burbano Herrera, Yves Haeck
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Latin american cooperation to reduce poverty and protect human rights
Revista do Instituto de Direito Constitucional e Cidadania, 2020 This paper analyzes the challenges to eradicate poverty and extreme poverty in Latin America. Moreover, it seeks to understand the recommendations from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on this topic.
Valerio de Oliveira Mazzuoli
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Inter-American standards on migration, asylum and refugee law
University of Vienna Law Review, 2018 no abstract ...
Joel Hernández
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Proposals for the Improvement of the Work of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Abstract This chapter aims at identifying concrete areas for improvement in the work of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. It highlights the main features of the Inter-American Human Rights System, mainly the gradual and evolutionary interpretation of the American Convention on Human Rights, which has led to a robust ...
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Challenging the US Supreme Court’s Majority Ruling on Roe v. Wade at the International Human Rights Level [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2023 This paper proposes that US human rights experts and abortion rights advocates challenge the striking down of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 by the majority of US Supreme Court justices because of the multiple human rights violations it has engendered.
Marge Berer
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