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The Inter-American Human Rights System
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
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
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
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
University of Minnesota pages on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
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)
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
Documents, including case law from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from the University of Minnesota
Worldlii Human Rights case law under international library at
http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/
Inter-American cases