mobilize public information. So, this is something that shows
that these petitioners that are using the individual complaint
procedure, using the interim measures, using the cases that have
been filed subsequently, now are resorting to the political
diplomatic powers of the Commission seeking a thematic hearing
from the Commission regarding the situation of human rights
in Guantanamo and elsewhere.
For those that are interested, you can look for this information
on CEJIL’s website,24 among others, and see the latest developments, how it advocates, and how petitioners are using all of
the tools at their disposal to induce pressure in a specific situation. The Guantanamo measures, I think, are a very interesting
example in this regard.
Endnotes: Panel I
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12 Committee
Ktiti v. Morocco, U.N. Comm. Against Torture, CAT/
C/46/D/419/2010 (Jul. 5, 2011) available at
http://sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/fulltextcat.nsf/
160f6e7f0fb318e8c1256d410033e0a1/
edda8c9ea6e9d834c12579660040f447?OpenDocument
2 Abdussamatov v. Kazakhstan, U.N. Comm. against Torture,
CAT/C/47/D/444/2010 (Nov. 15, 2011) available at http://www.
bayefsky.com/pdf/kazakhstan_t5_cat_444_2010_scan.pdf
3 Committee against Torture, Rules of Procedure, U.N. Doc.
CAT/C/3/Rev.5 (2011).
4 La Grand Case (Ger. v. U.S.) 2001 I.C.J. 104 (June 27)
available at http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/104/7736.pdf.
5 See www.redress.org.
6 Eur. Consult. Ass., Council of Europe member states’ duty to
co-operate with the European Court of Human Rights, 31st Sess.,
Doc. No. 11183 (2007).
7 Ending Threats and Reprisals against Victims of Torture and
Related International Crimes: A Call to Action, REDRESS (Dec.
2009), available at http://www.redress.org/downloads/publications/
Victim%20Protection%20 Report%20Final%2010%20Dec%2009.
pdf.
8 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, GA res.
2200A (XXI), 21 UN GAOR Supp. (No. 16) at 52, UN Doc. A/6316
(1966); 999 U.N.T.S. 171; 6 I.L.M. 368 (1967).
9 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment, art. 14, Dec. 10, 1984,
1465 U.N.T.S. 85.
10 U.N. Office of the High Comm’r for Human Rights, Manual on
the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Istanbul
Protocol), 2004, HR/P/PT/8/Rev.1, available at: http://www.unhcr.
org/refworld/docid/4638aca62.html.
11 International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from
Enforced Disappearances, UN Doc. E/CN.4/2005/WG.22/WP.1/
Rev.4 (2005).
against Torture, General Comment No. 3, U.N. Doc.
CAT/C/GC/3 (Dec. 2012) available at: http://www2.ohchr.org/
english/bodies/cat/GC3.htm.
13 Committee against Torture, Rules of Procedure, ¶ 114, U.N.
Doc. CAT/C/3/Rev.5 (Feb. 2011) available at: http://daccess-ddsny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G11/411/40/PDF/G1141140.
pdf?OpenElement.
14 See LaGrand, supra note 4.
15 See Rules of Procedure, supra note 13.
16 Organization of American States, Inter-American Convention
on Forced Disappearance of Persons, OAS Treaty Series No. 68, 33
ILM 1429 (1994).
17 Organization of American States, Rules of Procedure of the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2011), available at
http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/mandate/Basics/22.RULES%20OF%20
PROCEDURE%20IA%20 COMMISSION.pdf.
18 Organization of American States, American Convention on
Human Rights, OAS Treaty Series No. 36; 1144 UNTS 123; 9 ILM
99 (1969).
19 Report on Terrorism and Human Rights, Inter-Am. Comm’n H.R.,
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.116, 5 rev. 1 corr. (2002).
20 American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, OEA/
Ser.L./V.II.23, doc. 21, rev. 6 (1948), reprinted in Basic Documents
Pertaining to Human Rights in the Inter-American System, OEA/
Ser.L.V./II.82, doc. 6, rev. 1 at 17.
21 Charter of the Organization of American States, 119 UNTS 3,
entered into force 13 Dec. 1951, amended 721 UNTS 324, entered
into force 29 Feb. 1970.
22 Approved by the Commission at its 137th regular period of
sessions, held from October 28 to November 13, 2009, and modified
on September 2, 2011.
23 Inter-Am. Comm’n H.R., Precautionary Measures: Indigenous
Communities of the Xingu River Basin, Pará, Brazil, PM 382/10
(Apr. 1, 2011) (granting modification of precautionary measures).
24 See www.cejil.org.
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