Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Educational Material

The UN Human Rights Treaties

Treaty Based Bodies

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The Convenant on Civil and Political Rights

• Ratification
• Reservations (scroll down to the heading Reservations and Declarations)

The Monitoring Body - Human Rights Committee

Complaints Procedures

Treaty Body Database Search

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1. CCPR, Sweden, Jurisprudence
2. The application number: CCPR/C/KEN/3

 General Comments

UN Human Rights Treaties 

Minnesota Human Rights Library

Human Rigths Treaties and Other Documents

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Women´s Human Rights
Human Rights in the Administration of Jusitce
Rights of Prisoners and Detainees

Regional Protection on Human Rigths

Americas

Inter-American Commission of Human Rights

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Minnesota Human Rigths Library

Inter-American Commission

Basic Documents Relevant to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

 Africa

 African Commission on Human and People´s Rights

African Court on Human and People´s Rigths

Europe

Council of Europe

European Court of Human Rights

HUDOC -Database

• The Search form

Example:
Case of Öcalan v Tureky (Application no. 46221/99)

The UN Human Rights Treaties

Bayefsky.com

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By State
By Category

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South Africa
All documents related to South Africa

Jurisprudence

• Complete list of decisions

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Uganda
State Reports
No Jurisprudence

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Jurisprudence

CEDAW

Complet list of decisions

Index of cases of CEDAW by article

How to Complain to the UN Human Rights Treaty System 

General Comments

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CEDAW

Court of Justice - Curia

Euro-Lex

Cases:

International Court of Justice (ICJ)

  Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia (South West Africa), Notwithstanding Security Council Resolution 276 (1970), Advisory Opinion
   See also: I.C.J. Reports 1971, p. 16 ad 31.

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Jurisprudence: decisions & judgments

Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v. Nicaragua. Merits, Reparations and Costs. August 31, 2001;2

 Yakye Axa Indigenous Community v. Paraguay. Merits, Reparations and Costs. June 17, 2005

  Yatama v. Nicaragua. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of June 23, 2005

  Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community v. Paraguay. Merits, Reparations and Costs. March 29, 2006

  Saramaka People. v. Suriname. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs. November 28, 2007

  Xákmok Kásek Indigenous Community. v. Paraguay. Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of August 24, 2010

  Case of González et al. (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico. Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of November 16, 2009. Series C No. 205

  Case of Las Palmeras v. Colombia. Preliminary Objections. Judgment of February 4, 2000. Series C No. 67

  Case of the “Street Children” (Villagrán-Morales et al.) v. Guatemala. Merits. Judgment of November 19, 1999. Series C No. 63

  Case of Ivcher-Bronstein v. Peru. Competence. Judgment of September 24, 1999. Series C No. 54

Case of the Constitutional Court v. Peru. Competence. Judgment of September 24, 1999. Series C No. 55

Jurisprudence: advisory opinions

  The Right to Information on Consular Assistance. In the Framework of the Guarantees of the due Process of Law. Advisory Opinion OC-16/99 of October 1, 1999. Series A No. 16

  The Effect of Reservations on the Entry into Force of the American Convention on Human Rights (Arts. 74 and 75). Advisory Opinion OC-2/82 of September 24, 1982.Series A No. 2