Authority: American Commission on Human rights

Date: 03/09/2018

Subject: The decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, recognized the illegitimacy of the declaration of the state of abandonment of the minor and the following proceeding for the International adoption for Osmín Ricardo Tobar Ramírez and J.R., which, according to the Court, led to an arbitrary separation of the family, highlighting the contrast of the law then in force with the norms of the Convention

Parties: Ramírez Escobar y otros vs. Guatemala

Original language: Spanish

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 9 Right to found a family - Equality - Art. 24 Children’s rights - Justice - Art. 47 Right to an effective remedy before a tribunal

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