Author: Oscar Parra Vera
Keywords: human rights; Inter-American Commission of Human Rights; Inter-American Court of Human Rights; prohibition of discrimination; retroactive effect of a law; right to appeal; right to exhaust domestic remedies
The article focuses on the case law of the Inter-American court of Human Rights in the first half of 2014. The cases chosen by the author cover such issues as non-retroactive effect of a law, abuses in the alleged fight against terrorism, the right to legal defense and to appeal court decisions, the state’s obligation to carry out an effective investigation of violence against women, exceptions to the right to exhaust domestic remedies, protection of the rights of family members of imprisoned persons, and other important issues. The article contains four parts, each of them summarizing the most important Court findings, commented on by the author.