Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is an autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS) and of the bodies for protection of human rights. Its headquarters are in Washington, D.C., United States. Its ranking officers are its seven commissioners who are elected by OAS General Assembly for four years and work in a personal capacity and are not considered to represent their countries of origin. These officers have to be of high moral character and competent in the field of human rights. Any state party to a case has right to designate an ad hoc judge if its nationals are not in the court (Pasqualucci, 2003). IACHR is different among international human rights commissions in a way that it obligates private petitions and gives option for inter-state complaints. It has jurisdiction for individual complaints against a state party. One state party can file a case against another state party. Inter-American Court of Human Rights has adjudicatory and advisory jurisdiction like European Convention on Human Rights who has limited advisory jurisdiction opposed to IACHR says Thomas (200-).

Inter-American Court of Human Rights gives many religious rights. In 1969 Organization of American States established two organs called inter-American Commission on Human Rights and inter-American Court of Human Rights to protect the rights to exercise religious matters in America (Gomez, 2009). IACHR gives rights and respect without any discrimination based on race, colour, sex, religion, language, nationality, economic status, birth etc. It also gives protection of the law without any discrimination. It gives right to parents for giving their children moral and religious education. It ...

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...s and protection by keeping their physical or moral needs. The charter says to eliminate any racism.

Article 4 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights recognizes everyone’s right to live. In different articles death penalty is ensured to be eliminated. Article 5(3) guarantees the non-application of death penalty for crimes committed by children. Article 4 ensures that the countries where the death penalty exists they will not carryout death sentences on pregnant or nursing women. In some of African countries death penalty is not abolished yet and there are many resolutions to abolish death penalty for example resolution 2005/59 of the general assembly of the united nations, adopted in 2007 calling on all states that still retain the death penalty to, inter alia, observe moratorium on execution with a view to abolishing the death penalty (Anon, 200- ).