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Title | Date added | Template | Body | Legal status | Document type | Year | Document code | Original document | Paragraph text | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | African Union | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: i) Institute comprehensive programmes including legislative steps to prevent unsafe abortions; |
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| 2006 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The American States agree to grant to women the same civil rights that men enjoy. |
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| 1948 | ||||
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The present Convention shall be open for signature by the American States and shall be ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional procedures. The original instrument, the Spanish, English, Portuguese and French texts of which are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, which shall transmit certified copies to the Governments for the purpose of ratification. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, which shall notify the signatory governments of the said deposit. Such notification shall serve as an exchange of ratifications. |
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| 1948 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 3. No one shall be subject to arbitrary arrest or imprisonment. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 4. In no case shall capital punishment be inflicted for political offenses or related common crimes. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Every person has the right to be compensated in accordance with the law in the event he has been sentenced by a final judgment through a miscarriage of justice. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 6. Anyone who is deprived of his liberty shall be entitled to recourse to a competent court, in order that the court may decide without delay on the lawfulness of his arrest or detention and order his release if the arrest or detention is unlawful. In States Parties whose laws provide that anyone who believes himself to be threatened with deprivation of his liberty is entitled to recourse to a competent court in order that it may decide on the lawfulness of such threat, this remedy may not be restricted or abolished. The interested party or another person in his behalf is entitled to seek these remedies. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 7. No one shall be detained for debt. This principle shall not limit the orders of a competent judicial authority issued for nonfulfillment of duties of support. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. No one shall be subject to restrictions that might impair his freedom to maintain or to change his religion or beliefs. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 4. Parents or guardians, as the case may be, have the right to provide for the religious and moral education of their children or wards that is in accord with their own convictions. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. The correction or reply shall not in any case remit other legal liabilities that may have been incurred. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1. Everyone has the right to associate freely for ideological, religious, political, economic, labor, social, cultural, sports, or other purposes. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 3. The provisions of this article do not bar the imposition of legal restrictions, including even deprivation of the exercise of the right of association, on members of the armed forces and the police. |
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| 1969 | ||||
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. The terms of office of judges shall expire when they reach the age of 70. |
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| 1950 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 2a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. The States Parties undertake:
a. to ensure that any person claiming such remedy shall have his rights determined by the competent authority provided for by the legal system of the state; |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 1. Only the States Parties and the Commission shall have the right to submit a case to the Court. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. The report shall be transmitted to the states concerned, which shall not be at liberty to publish it. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The members of the Commission shall be elected by secret ballot of the General Assembly from the list of candidates referred to in Article 79. The candidates who obtain the largest number of votes and an absolute majority of the votes of the representatives of the member states shall be declared elected. Should it become necessary to have several ballots in order to elect all the members of the Commission, the candidates who receive the smallest number of votes shall be eliminated successively, in the manner determined by the General Assembly. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The judges of the Court shall be elected from the list of candidates referred to in Article 81, by secret ballot of the States Parties to the Convention in the General Assembly. The candidates who obtain the largest number of votes and an absolute majority of the votes of the representatives of the States Parties shall be declared elected. Should it become necessary to have several ballots in order to elect all the judges of the Court, the candidates who receive the smallest number of votes shall be eliminated successively, in the manner determined by the States Parties. |
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| 1969 | ||||
Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1984, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | When a person has by a final decision been convicted of a criminal offence and when subsequently his conviction has been reversed, or he has been pardoned, on the ground that a new or newly discovered fact shows conclusively that there has been a miscarriage of justice, the person who has suffered punishment as a result of such conviction shall be compensated according to the law or the practice of the State concerned, unless it is proved that the non-disclosure of the unknown fact in time is wholly or partly attributable to him. |
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| 1984 | ||||
Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1984, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 6. Any State which has made a declaration in accordance with paragraph 1 or 2 of this article may at any time thereafter declare on behalf of one or more of the territories to which the declaration relates that it accepts the competence of the Court to receive applications from individuals, non-governmental organisations or groups of individuals as provided in Article 34 of the Convention in respect of Articles 1 to 5 of this Protocol. (1) |
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| 1984 | ||||
Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1984, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Council of Europe | Legally binding | Regional treaty | This Protocol shall be open for signature by member States of the Council of Europe which have signed the Convention. It is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval. A member State of the Council of Europe may not ratify, accept or approve this Protocol without previously or simultaneously ratifying the Convention. Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. |
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| 1984 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | Five judges shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business by the Court. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The Commission shall appear in all cases before the Court. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. The Court shall appoint its own Secretary. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 3. The Secretary shall have his office at the place where the Court has its seat and shall attend the meetings that the Court may hold away from its seat. |
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| 1969 | ||||
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The Court shall draw up its Statute which it shall submit to the General Assembly for approval. It shall adopt its own Rules of Procedure. |
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| 1969 | ||||
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 1990, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | The Committee shall publish its report after it has been considered by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government. |
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| 1990 | ||||
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 1990, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of African Unity | Legally binding | Regional treaty | State Parties shall make the Committee’s reports widely available to the public in their own countries. |
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| 1990 | ||||
Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Organization of American States | Legally binding | Regional treaty | 2. The States Parties to this Protocol agree that education should be directed towards the full development of the human personality and human dignity and should strengthen respect for human rights, ideological pluralism, fundamental freedoms, justice and peace. They further agree that education ought to enable everyone to participate effectively in a democratic and pluralistic society and achieve a decent existence and should foster understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations and all racial, ethnic or religious groups and promote activities for the maintenance of peace. |
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| 1988 |