The Prohibition of Amnesties by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Abstract

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has proven a particularly active defender of human rights in Latin America. The Court has developed an innovative and creative jurisprudence with respect to all kinds of human rights violations, including forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, violations of indigenous peoples’ rights or those of undocumented migrants.

Dr. Christina Binder, E.MA, is Assistant Professor at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law in Vienna. She is a recipient of an APART-scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is currently a visiting fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. The author wishes to thank the Dienstagsrunde for insightful remarks and helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. All translations are my own.