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