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<strong>INTERIGHTS</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong><br />
Volume 16 Number 4 2011<br />
175<br />
International<br />
Law Reports<br />
The case summaries in this issue were<br />
kindly prepared for the <strong>Bulletin</strong> by<br />
lawyers from Dechert LLP. Those<br />
lawyers were:<br />
Douglas Carleton<br />
Matthew Root<br />
Eric Schroeder<br />
Amy Thayer<br />
With many thanks to Douglas Carleton<br />
and Suzanne Turner of Dechert LLP<br />
for managing the project.<br />
<strong>INTERIGHTS</strong> hosts two free<br />
searchable databases on its website,<br />
the International Human Rights Law<br />
Database and the Commonwealth<br />
Human Rights Law Database. These<br />
contain over 2,500 summaries of<br />
significant human rights cases from<br />
domestic, regional and international<br />
courts and tribunals. New cases are<br />
regularly added to the databases. See<br />
for further details.<br />
African Committee of Experts<br />
on the Rights and Welfare of<br />
the Child<br />
Institute for Human Rights and<br />
Development in Africa (IHRDA) and<br />
Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI)<br />
on Behalf of Children of Nubian<br />
Descent in Kenya v The Government<br />
of Kenya<br />
Committee on the Elimination<br />
of Discrimination Against<br />
Women<br />
Alyne da Silva Pimentel v Brazil<br />
European Court of Human<br />
Rights<br />
Al-Skeini & Ors v United Kingdom<br />
R.R. v Poland<br />
Ternovszky v Hungary<br />
Inter-American Commission on<br />
Human Rights<br />
Jessica Lenahan (formerly Jessica<br />
Gonzales) v United States<br />
United Nations Human Rights<br />
Committee<br />
LMR v Argentina<br />
Abbreviations<br />
ACERWC<br />
African Committee of Experts on the<br />
Rights and Welfare of the Child<br />
ACHPR<br />
African Commission on Human and<br />
Peoples’ Rights<br />
ACRWC<br />
African Charter on the Rights and<br />
Welfare of the Child<br />
ADRDM<br />
American Declaration of the Rights<br />
and Duties of Man<br />
CmEDAW<br />
Committee on the Elimination of<br />
Discrimination Against Women<br />
CEDAW<br />
Convention on the Elimination of All<br />
Forms of Discrimination Against<br />
Women<br />
ECHR<br />
European Convention on Human<br />
Rights<br />
ECtHR<br />
European Court of Human Rights<br />
HRC<br />
United Nations Human Rights<br />
Committee<br />
IACmHR<br />
Inter-American Commission on<br />
Human Rights<br />
ICCPR<br />
International Covenant on Civil and<br />
Political Rights<br />
ICJ<br />
International Court of Justice