UN rights chief urges Venezuela to stay in human rights court

[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] urged [press release] Venezuela [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday to re-commit to the American Convention on Human Rights [text], the treaty that empowers the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) [official website, in Spanish]. Venezuela, under the edict of President Hugo Chavez [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], withdrew from the court [JURIST report] in July, but had not officially withdrawn from the treaty. Pillay praised the IACHR...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/09/un-high-commissioner-asks-venezuela-to-stay-in-human-rights-court.php

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