The Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) , representing Inuit indigenous peoples in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia, has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accusing the US government...
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Rights groups ask IACHR to investigate allegations of Chicago police torture
Several civil rights organizations, including the University of Chicago Law School's MacArthur Justice Center and the ACLU of Illinois announced Monday that they have asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights , part of the judicial branch of the Organization of American States regional body, has ordered the Suriname government to pay $13,000 (USD) to each of...
Peru says it will ignore any ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights advocating the release of American Lori Berenson. Berenson has been jailed in Peru since her 1995 arrest and 2001 conviction for terrorist collaboration with Marxist...