IHR LEGAL Newletter
Selected developments in the field of international human rights

Highlights of our latest newsletter…
IHR LEGAL Newsletter – January to March 2022
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, stated before the UN Human Rights Council on March 30, 2022, that Russia’s indiscriminate attacks in Ukraine could constitute war crimes and serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights.
- In the case “Karuyev v. Russia,” the ECtHR found that a criminal conviction of a person in Russia for spitting on a portrait of President Putin in 2012, following his election, was in violation of human rights. The plaintiff was convicted of breach of public order and sentenced to 15 days of arrest.
- The IACHR filed a case against El Salvador before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights regarding the absolute prohibition of abortion, on January 5, 2022. The case concerns a woman who was prevented from accessing a legal, early and timely abortion, in a situation of grave risk to her life, health, and personal integrity and the non-viability of the extrauterine life of the fetus.
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IHR LEGAL Newsletter – January to April 2021
Statement on the George Floyd case by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet; IACHR Resolution on “COVID-19 vaccines in the framework of Inter-American Human Rights obligations”; African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Resolution on the excessive use of force by agents of African States; and much more here.
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