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News Clips – through Sept. 14, 2010

September 14, 2010 IJRC ATCA litigation, crime & impunity, democracy & political rights, discrimination, domestic courts, due process & judicial protection, economic, social & cultural rights, ICJ, ICTR, immigration & asylum, Inter-American System, interim measures, International Criminal Court, internationalized criminal tribunals, liberty & security of person, massacres, security & rule of law, thought, expression & association, torture, UN Special Procedures, Universal system

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Syria welcomes its first visit from a UN special rapporteur, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, in a showing of increased participation with the UN Human Rights Council’s monitoring mechanisms, including its upcoming Universal Periodic Review. [The National; OHCHR] The Special Rapporteur estimates that 2 to 3 million people face food insecurity in

News Clips – July 18, 2010

July 19, 2010 IJRC discrimination, European System, Inter-American System, interim measures, International Criminal Court, international criminal law, labor rights, liberty & security of person, massacres, security & rule of law, U.S. courts

Argentina legalizes same-sex marriage, becoming the second country in the Western Hemisphere to do so. [Washington Post] The Pre-Trial Chamber I of the ICC has issued a second arrest warrant for Sudan’s President Al Bashir, who is wanted to face charges of genocide against the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups. The first warrant was based on charges of war

ICTY Convicts Seven in Srebrenica Massacre Case

June 13, 2010 IJRC domestic courts, ICTY, internationalized criminal tribunals, massacres

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted seven Bosnian Serb military leaders owing to their participation in the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, in which over 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed. Read the judgment summary here. [Impunity Watch, ICTY] From among the many atrocities committed during the Balkans conflict, the Srebrenica massacre has been singled

News Clips – June 1, 2010

June 1, 2010 IJRC ATCA litigation, crime & impunity, democracy & political rights, enforced disappearance, environmental rights, European System, indigenous communities, Inter-American System, interim measures, thought, expression & association, transitional justice, U.S. courts, Universal system

Protocol 14 to the European Convention on Human Rights enters into force today, introducing a number of changes to decrease the Court’s backlog, strengthen enforcement in order to reduce repetitive applications, concentrate its efforts on cases where applicants have suffered a “significant disadvantage”, and allow the European Commissioner for Human Rights to intervene as a third party [ECHR] Amnesty International

IACHR Submits Cases Involving Disappearance and Indigenous Land Rights to Inter-American Court

May 5, 2010 IJRC due process & judicial protection, enforced disappearance, environmental rights, indigenous communities, Inter-American System, property

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights announced today that it will litigate two cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (against Argentina and Ecuador), while the press and civil society reported that a third case against the Dominican Republic will also be heard by the court. The IACHR press release states: On April 18, 2010, the IACHR filed an

IACHR Admits Cases Involving Ancestral Land Rights and ‘Environmental Racism’

April 28, 2010 IJRC economic, social & cultural rights, environmental rights, indigenous communities, Inter-American System, property, right to life, security & rule of law, torture

In its first five admissibility decisions of 2010, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights admitted three petitions against Peru, one against Honduras, and one against the United States. The petition against Honduras concerns the rights of a Garifuna community, while the petition against the United States concerns the rights of a predominantly African American community in Mossville, Louisiana. In the

ECHR Reviews Disappearance, Private and Family Life, and Freedom of Expression in Recent Judgments

April 27, 2010 IJRC European System, privacy, property, right to life, thought, expression & association

The European Court of Human Rights issued a number of decisions this week and last against a number of States, including Poland, Slovakia, Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Albania, Romania, Italy, Serbia and the United Kingdom. Several of these recent judgments involved individuals who had been internally displaced by conflict or unrest, while others involved rights protected by Article 8 of the Convention (pertaining

Argentine Officer Sentenced to 15 Years for Dirty War Abuses

April 13, 2010 IJRC domestic courts, international criminal law, liberty & security of person, right to life

Former army intelligence officer Horacio Barcos was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment by the Tribunal Oral Federal in Santa Fe, Argentina on Monday in the culmination of his prosecution for alleged crimes against humanity committed during the Dirty War, presided over by Jorge Rafael Videla‘s military dictatorship. Barcos was sentenced to 11 years in prison for the crimes of illegal

New Human Rights Watch Publications on DRC Massacre and Vigilante Justice in Burundi

April 2, 2010 IJRC crime & impunity, massacres

This week, Human Rights Watch published two new reports documenting abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Burundi. The first, Trail of Death, reports the findings of HRW’s fact-finding mission to the Makombo area, in the aftermath of a December 2009 massacre committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army. The second, Mob Justice in Burundi, documents official complicity