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CASE LAW
The protection
organs of the Inter-American system have elaborated on the protection of
the rights of migrant workers and their families in several
opportunities. Next, the Rapporteurship presents the case law of the
inter-American system on this matter organized thematically:
Right to Life,
Liberty, Personal Security, to Equality and to a Fair Trial
•
Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights, Admissibility Report Nº 28/93, Case 10.675, Haitian Boat People
(United States of America), October 13, 1993.
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Merits Report No. 51/96, Case 10.675,
Haitian Boat People (United States of America), March 13, 1997.
Right to Life,
Personal Integrity, Circulation, Residence, and to Special Protection of
Children in the Family
•
Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Provisional Measures, Haitians and
Haitian Origin Dominicans in the Dominican Republic, Orders of September
14, 2000; November 12, 2000; and May 26, 2001.
Right to life, to
a Fair Trial, and to Information about Consular Protection
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Admissibility Report Nº 61/03, Petition
P4446/02, Roberto Moreno Ramos (United States of America), October 10,
2003.
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Admissibility Report Nº 108/00, Petition
11.753, Ramón Martínez Villareal (United States of America), December 4,
2000.
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Merits Report Nº 52/02, Petition 11.753,
Ramón Martínez Villareal (United States of America), October 10, 2002.
Right to a Fair
Trial and to Judicial Protection
•
Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights, Admissibility Report Nº 37/01, Case 11.529, José Sánchez Guner
Espinales et al. (Costa Rica), February 22, 2001.
•
Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights, Admissibility Report Nº 89/00, Case 11.495, Juan Ramón Chamorro
Quiroz (Costa Rica), October 5, 2000.
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Report Nº 38/99, Víctor Saldaño (Argentina),
March 11, 1999.
Right to a Fair
Trial and of Asylum
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Admissibility Report Nº 6/02, Petition
12.071, 120 Cuban Nationals and 8 Haitian Nationals detained in the
Bahamas (Bahamas), February 27, 2002.
Right to a Fair
Trial and to the Protection of the Family
•
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,
Report 27/93,
Petition 11.092 Cheryl Monica Joseph (Canada), October 6, 1993
•
Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights, Report Nº 19/02, Petition 12.379 Mario Alfredo Lares-Reyes, Vera
Allen Frost and Samuel Segura (United States of America), February 27,
2002.
Right to Personal
Integrity, to a Fair Trial, to Privacy, to Property, to Judicial
Protection, Freedom of Conscience and Religion and of Association
•
Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights, Admissibility Report Nº 34/98, Case 11.610, Loren Laroye Riebe
Star, Jorge Barón Guttlein and Rodolfo Izal Elorz (Mexico), May 5, 1998.
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Merits Report Nº 49/99, Case 11.610, Loren
Laroye Riebe Star, Jorge Barón Guttlein and Rodolfo Izal Elorz (Mexico),
April 13, 1999.
Right to Personal
Liberty and to Information on Consular Protection
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Admissibility Report Nº 12/02, Petition
12.090, Jesús Enrique Valderrama Perea (Ecuador), February 27, 2002.
Right to Personal
Liberty, to a Fair Trial, and to Information on Consular Protection
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Admissibility Report Nº 77/03, Petitions
12.091 and 172/99,
Juan Carlos Chaparro Álvarez (Ecuador)
• Inter-American
Court of Human Rights,
Advisory Opinion OC-16/99, the Right to
Information on Consular Assistance in the Framework of Due Process
Guarantees, October 1, 1999.
Right to Personal
Liberty, to a Fair Trial, to Movement and Residence and to Judicial
Protection
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Merits Report, Resolution No. 30/81, Case
7378, Carlos Stetter (Guatemala), June 25, 1981.
Right to Liberty
and Protection from Arbitrary Arrest
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Admissibility and Merits Report Nº51/01,
Case 9903, Rafael Ferrer-Mazorra et al. (United States of America),
April 4, 2001.
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Admissibility Report Nº7/02, Petition
11.661, Manickavasagam Suresh (Canada), February 27, 2002.
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Report to Close Case, Case 1170, Héctor
Pérez Gómez (Mexico), December 17, 1974.
Right to Equality
and to Non-Discrimination
•
Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights,
Admissibility Report Nº 59/04, Petition
292/03 Margarita Cecilia Barbería Miranda (Chile), October 13, 2004.
•
Inter-American Court of Human Rights,
Advisory Opinion OC-18, Legal
Status and Rights of Undocumented Workers, September 17, 2003.
Right to Residence
and Movement
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Merits Report, Resolution Nº 56/81, Case
5713, Alberto Texier (Chile), October 16, 1981.
Right to Residence
and Movement and to Due Process of Law
•
Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights, Merits Report, Resolution Nº 40/79, Case 2777, Thelma King et
al. (Panama), March 7, 1979.
Right to
Nationality
•
Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights, Admissibility Report No. 20/98, Case 11.762, Baruch Ivcher
Bronstein (Peru), March 3, 1998.
• Inter-American
Court of Human Rights, Case Baruch Ivcher Bronstein (Peru), Judgment,
February 6, 2001.
Right to
Nationality and to Education
• Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, Admissibility Report No.
28/01, Case
12.819, Dilcia Yean and Violeta Bosica (Dominican Republic),
February 22, 2001.
Right to Equality and to
Non-Discrimination
•
Inter-American Court of Human
Rights, Case of Daniel Tibi (Ecuador), Setence of September 7, 2004.
COUNTRY
REPORTS
The Inter-American Commission has deemed it appropriate to make
reference to the situations and rights related to migrant workers and
their families in its on-site visit reports.
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