Human Rights Law Journal

Issue: 20, 4-6

Decisions and Reports - European Court of Human Rights (EurCourtHR), Strasbourg

• Torture in police custody / Excessive length of investigation / Selmouni v. France  228 - 242
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Documentation

• American Bar Association, Washington, DC - Recommendation towards consolidating into two committees the existing six UN committees currently monitoring UN human rights treaties (CCPR, CESR, CERD, CEDAW, CAT, CRC)  272 - 275
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• Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg - Protection of privacy on the Internet / Guidelines  275 - 278
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Decisions and Reports: Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina (HRChamber), Sarajevo

• Detention on terrorism and war crimes charges / Possession of a landmine / Violation of Arts. 5 (3) and 5(1) ECHR/ Sljivo v. RS  255 - 268
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Documentation

• Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg - Unacceptable delay in abiding by the May 1998 EurCourtHR judgment in Socialist Party et al. V. Turkey / 2nd Interim Resolution  278 - 278
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• Council of Europe(CoE), Strasbourg - Alvar Gil-Robles elected first Commissioner for Human Rights  268 - 269
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• Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg - Inadmissible reservations to international treaties / Model response clause to reservations  278 - 280
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Articles

• Follow up to Rome: Preparing for Entry into Force of the International Criminal Court Statute  157 - 166
  Schabas, William A.

Pending Proceedings

• Austrian Constitutional Court, Vienna - Loyalty to the European legal order / First referral of a national Constitutional Court to the CJEC for a preliminary ruling / Equality, property and criteria of State aid  281 - 284
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Decisions and Reports - Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACourtHR), San Jose

• Chilean civilians sentenced to life imprisonment in Peru under military jurisdiction / Preliminary objections dismissed / Castillo Petruzzi v. Peru  176 - 194
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Documentation

• Trinidad and Tobago - Withdrawal from and re-accession to the CCPR First Optional Protocol / Definite withdrawal from the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights  280 - 281
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Decisions and Reports - European Court of Human Rights (EurCourtHR), Strasbourg

• Night-watchmen (the applicant's son) killed during an armed operation of security forces in search of PKK members / Violation of Art. 2 ECHR / Ogur v. Turkey  213 - 228
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Decisions and Reports - Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACourtHR), San Jose

• Contents and scope of measures of reparations / Wieght of evidence / Compensation claim for damage to the victim's "life plan" / Loayza Tamayo v. Peru  194 - 213
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Documentation

• Organization of African Unity (OAU), Addis Ababa - Protocol on the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights  269 - 272
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Articles

• Peru Withdraws from the Court: Will the Inter-American Human Rights System Meet the Challenge?  167 - 175
  Cassel, Douglass

Decisions and Reports: Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina (HRChamber), Sarajevo

• Arrest of a former interpreter of a humanitarian NGO together with two UN employees in a UN vehicle / Violation of Arts. 3, 4, 5, 13, 14 ECHR / Hermas v. Fed. BiH  242 - 255
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