ADC - Asociación por los Derechos Civiles

Highlights

• The Inter-American Commission launched a report on maternal health

  The Inter-American Commission issued the report Access to Maternal Health Services from a Human Rights Perspective.

• The Inter-American Commission expressed it’s concern over deaths during a demonstration in Panama

  In a press release issued on August 3rd, 2010 the Inter-American Commission spoke out against the acts of violence occurred during a protest in Bocas del Toro, Panama.

• New period of sessions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

  Between August 23 and September 4, 2010 a new ordinary period of sessions will take place in San José, Costa Rica.

• Case of Chitay Nech and others v. Guatemala

  The Inter-American Court ruled in the case of the forced disappearance of a Mayan community leader in Guatemala during the armed conflict that occurred between 1962 and 1996.

• The effectiveness of the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights

  ADC made a case study aiming at measuring the effectiveness of the decisions of the Inter-American systems' protection organisms: the Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court.

• Handbook for journalists on the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights

  The ADC has developed a handbook for journalists which explains the main objectives and functioning of the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights.