The Future of the Inter-American Human Rights System
The Future of the Inter-American Human Rights System
The extreme proposals by Ecuador and Venezuela to improve the IACHR would do exactly the opposite.
Neither uncertainty about the continuity of chavismo in Venezuela nor the campaign of newly re-elected Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa have distracted the ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) countries in their crusade against the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Just over a year ago, they launched a campaign to weaken the powers of the IACHR, the organ of the Organization of American States (OAS) responsible for tracking and verifying the human rights situation in countries throughout the hemisphere.
Since mid-2011, a...
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