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WOMEN’S ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE 277
ANNEX 2: INTERNATIONAL LEGAL REMEDIES
AND THEIR USE 682
I. Using international mechanisms and
remedies
There are a number of international mechanisms, judicial and
non-judicial, that may be available to migrants seeking
remedies to violations of legal venues to enforce rights.
International human rights mechanisms allowing individual
petitions include:
Judicial mechanisms: International courts receive
individual petitions or applications, and have
competence to interpret and apply human rights
instruments, declare whether the treaty has been
violated, and prescribe appropriate remedies in the
individual case considered. Their decisions are binding,
and must be executed by the concerned State.
International human rights judicial mechanisms include:
the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-
American Court of Human Rights, and the African Court
on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
Quasi-judicial mechanisms: These bodies have all the
characteristics of the judicial mechanisms, except that
their decisions are not binding. They include: the Human
Rights Committee, the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Committee
on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the
Committee against Torture (CAT), the European
Committee on Social Rights (ECSR), the Inter-American
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Extract from ICJ Practitioners Guide No. 6, Migration and
International Human Rights Law (updated edition, 2014) URL:
http://icj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-
content/uploads/2014/10/Universal-MigrationHRlaw-PG-no-6-
Publications-PractitionersGuide-2014-eng.pdf