05-26-2010 - American Commission on Human rights
Decision C 213

Classification: Dignity - Art. 1 Human dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity - Freedoms - Art. 10 Freedom of thought - Art. 11 Freedom of expression - Art. 12 Freedom of association

The Court has sentenced Colombia for the violation of the rights to life and to personal integrity, to legal protection, to the protection of honor and dignity, to the freedom of thought and of expression and to liberty of association, in relation to...

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05-25-2010 - American Commission on Human rights
Decision C 212

Classification: Dignity - Art. 1 Human dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity - Freedoms - Art. 6 Personal liberty - Art. 12 Freedom of assembly - Freedom of association - Solidarity - Art. 33 Family protection - Citizens’ rights - Art. 45 Freedom of movement - Freedom of residence - Justice - Art. 47 Right to an effective remedy before a tribunal

The Court has deemed the State of Guatemala responsible for the forced disappearance of the political leader Florencio Chitay Nech, also recalling a consolidated jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights

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05-17-2010 - Supreme Court of the United States (USA)
Decision 08-7421

Classification: Dignity - Art. 4 Inhuman punishments - Degrading punishments - Freedoms - Art. 6 Personal liberty - Equality - Art. 24 Children’s rights - Justice - Art. 49 Proportionality of penalties

The Supreme Court of the United States has stated the constitutional illegitimacy of life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole, against minors who have committed crimes other than homicide, which is deemed a cruel and unusual punishment...

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04-26-2010 - United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (USA)
Decision 04-16688, 04-16720

Classification: Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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04-20-2010 - Criminal Federal Tribunal of Argentina
Judgement 2031/2010

Classification: Dignity - Art. 1 Human dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity - Art. 4 Torture - Inhuman treatments - Degrading treatments - Freedoms - Art. 6 Personal liberty - Justice - Art. 47 Fair trial, public hearing

The Criminal Federal Tribunal of Argentina’s judgement sentenced General Reynaldo Bignone to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses perpetrated during the so called "Dirty War". Bignone, the last dictator to hold power during the military regim...

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03-18-2010 - International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Judgement ICTR-01-72-A

Classification: Dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity - Equality - Art. 20 Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination - Justice - Art. 47 Fair trial, public hearing

The ICTR Appeals Chamber’s judgement in the Simon Bikindi v. The Prosecutor case, upheld the conviction of Simon Bikindi previously returned by Trial Chamber III and sentenced him of 15 years in prison. Bikindi, a former singer, composer and leader...

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03-03-2010 - United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (USA)
Decision 06-35563, 06-35587

Classification: General theme

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has established the American Courts jurisdiction on civil cases concerning legal actions for compensation against the Vatican for sexual abuses committed by persons belonging to the catholic cl...

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02-25-2010 - Federal Court of Australia
Decision [2010] FCAFC 12

Classification: Dignity - Art. 4 Torture - Inhuman punishments - Degrading punishments - Inhuman treatments - Degrading treatments

The Court excludes that the act of state can be invoked as limit to its own right to judge in the matter of serious violations of human rights (in the specific case, torture and abuses suffered by the claimant in a foreign territory with the complici...

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02-22-2010 - European Data Protection Supervisor
Opinion on the ongoing negotiations on an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 8 Personal data: fairly processing - Personal data: consent - Personal data: access - Personal data: rectification - Personal data: independent authority - Art. 17 Intellectual property

The European Data Protection Supervisor, in the opinion on the ongoing negotiations on an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement calls on the European Commission to strike a right balance between demands for the protection of intellectual property right...

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02-08-2010 - International Criminal Court
Decision ICC-02/05-02/09

Classification: Dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity - Justice - Art. 47 Fair trial, public hearing

The ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I decision of 08.02.2010, which declined to confirm the charges in the case of The Prosecutor v. Bahar Idriss Abu Garda, because not supported by sufficient evidence to establish substantial grounds to believe that Bahar Idr...

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