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DECISIONS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS

International Judgments, General Comments and Other Instruments | Migration, Refuge and Statelessness

 

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

 

CASES

 

Case of Velez Loor vs. Panama, Judgment of November 23, 2010

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_218_esp2.pdf

 

Case of Expelled Dominican and Haitian Persons v. Dominican Republic, Judgment of August 28, 2014

https://corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_282_esp.pdf

 

Case of Nadege Dorzema et al v. Dominican Republic, Judgment of October 24, 2012

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_251_esp.pdf

 

Case of the Pacheco Tineo Family v. Plurinational Republic of Bolivia, Judgment of November 25, 2013

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_272_esp.pdf

 

Case of the girls Yean and Bosico v. Dominican Republic, Judgment of September 8, 2005

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_130_esp.pdf

 

Wong Ho Wing vs. Peru, Judgment of June 30, 2015

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_297_esp.pdf

 

Tibi vs. Ecuador, Judgment of September 7, 2004

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_114_esp.pdf

 

Case of Acosta Calderon v. Ecuador, Judgment of June 24, 2005

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_129_esp1.pdf

  

Inter-American Court Casebook No. 2: Persons in a situation of migration and refuge:

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/sitios/libros/todos/docs/cuadernillo2.pdf


 

ADVISORY OPINIONS


 

Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court 04/84, of January 19, 1984 - Proposed amendment of the Political Constitution of Costa Rica related to naturalization.

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/opiniones/seriea_04_esp.pdf

 

Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court 16/99, of October 1, 1999 - The right to information on consular assistance within the framework of due process guarantees.

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/opiniones/seriea_16_esp.pdf

 

Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court 03/18, of September 17, 2003 - Legal status and rights of undocumented migrants.

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/opiniones/seriea_18_esp.pdf

 

Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court 21/14, of August 19, 2014 - Rights and guarantees of children and adolescents in the context of migration and/or in need of international protection.

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/opiniones/seriea_21_esp.pdf

 

Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court 25/18, of May 30, 2018 - The institution of asylum and its recognition as a human right in the Inter-American Protection System (interpretation and scope of articles 5, 22.7 and 22.8, in relation to article 1.1 of the Convention American on Human Rights

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/opiniones/seriea_25_esp.pdf

 

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

 

REPORTS

 

Forced migration of Nicaraguan people to Costa Rica - 2019

http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/informes/pdfs/MigracionForzada-Nicaragua-CostaRica.pdf

 

Human mobility: interamerican standards - 2016

http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/informes/pdfs/MovilidadHumana.pdf

 

Refugees and Migrants in the United States: Unaccompanied Families and Children - 2015

http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/informes/pdfs/Refugiados-Migrantes-EEUU.pdf

 

Human rights of migrants and other people in the context of human mobility in Mexico - 2014

http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/migrantes/docs/pdf/Informe-Migrantes-Mexico-2013.pdf

 

Report on Immigration to the United States: Detenciones y Debido Proceso - 2011

http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/migrantes/docs/pdf/Migrantes2011.pdf

 

Report on the Progress of the Special Rapporteur on Migratory Workers and Members of their Families - 2005

http://cidh.oas.org/annualrep/2005sp/cap.5.htm

 

Progress Report on the Situation of Migratory Workers and Members of their Families in the Hemisphere - 1999

http://www.cidh.org/Migrantes/migrantes98sp.htm

UN system

 

GENERAL COMMENTS

 

Committee for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their

Families

  • General Comment No. 4/2017: States' obligations regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration in countries of origin, transit, destination e  return  

  • General Comment No. 3/2017: General principles relating to the human rights of children in the context of international migration

  • General Comment No. 2/2013: Rights of migrant workers in an irregular situation and their families

  • General Comment No. 1/2011: Migrant Domestic Workers  

Committee on Children's Rights

  • General Comment No. 23/2017: Obligations of States regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration in countries of origin, transit, destination and return

  • General Comment No. 22/2017: General principles relating to the human rights of children in the context of international migration 

  • General Comment No. 6/2005: Treatment of unaccompanied or separated minors outside their country of origin

Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

  • General Comment No. 32/2014: Gender dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness for women

  • General Comment No. 26/2008: Migrant Workers

 

Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

 

General Comment No. 22/1996: Article 5 of the Convention and refugees and displaced persons 

https://conf-dts1.unog.ch/1%20SPA/Tradutek/Derechos_hum_Base/CERD/00_3_obs_grales_CERD.h

tml#GEN22

 

General Comment No. 28/2002: Regarding the follow-up to the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 

https://conf-dts1.unog.ch/1%20SPA/Tradutek/Derechos_hum_Base/CERD/00_3_obs_grales_CERD.html#GEN28 

 

General Comment No. 30/2005: On discrimination against non-citizens

https://conf-dts1.unog.ch/1%20SPA/Tradutek/Derechos_hum_Base/CERD/00_3_obs_grales_CERD.html#GEN30

 

Other CEDR General Comments

https://conf-dts1.unog.ch/1%20SPA/Tradutek/Derechos_hum_Base/CERD/00_3_obs_grales_CERD.html

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