Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)

The IACHR is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS). Its mandate is found in the OAS Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights. The IACHR represents all of the member States of the OAS. It has seven members who act independently, without representing any particular country. The members of the IACHR are elected by the General Assembly of the OAS. The IACHR is a permanent body which meets in ordinary and special sessions several times a year. The Executive Secretariat of the IACHR carries out the tasks delegated to it by the IACHR and provides legal and administrative support to the IACHR as it carries out its work. Website: www.cidh.org

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Medida Cautelar No. 496-14 y MC-37-15, Asunto sobre seis comisarias ubicada en el departmento de Lomas de Zamora y La Matanza de La Mantanza respecto de Argentina 12 May 2016 \| Publisher: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
Medida Cautelar No. 58-16, Kamel Salame Ajami respecto de Venezuela 15 April 2016 \| Publisher: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
Situation of Human Rights in Honduras 31 December 2015 \| Publisher: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) \| Document type: Country Reports
The Human Rights Situation in Mexico 31 December 2015 \| Publisher: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) \| Document type: Country Reports
Report on the Human Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty in the Americas 31 December 2011 \| Publisher: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) \| Document type: Regional Reports
Report No. 112/10 Inter-state Petition IP-02 Admissibility Franklin Guillermo Aisalla Molina (Ecuador-Colombia) 21 October 2011 \| Judicial Body: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Combatants / Former combatants - Exhaustion of domestic remedies - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Human rights law - International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions - Military operations - Right to justice - Right to life \| Countries:
Democracy and Human Rights in Venezuela 30 November 2009 \| Publisher: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) \| Document type: Country Reports
Report on the Corporal Punishment and Human Rights of Children and Adolescents in the Americas 5 August 2009 \| Publisher: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) \| Document type: Thematic Reports
Jorge Odir Miranda et al. v. El Salvador 20 March 2009 \| Judicial Body: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Equality before the law - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - HIV and AIDS - Right to health - Right to liberty and security - Right to life \| Countries: El Salvador
Andrea Mortlock v. United States Admissibility and Merits 25 July 2008 \| Judicial Body: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Criminal justice - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Right to health \| Countries: United States of America

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