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several effective and adequate remedies are available, it is
sufficient to exhaust only one of them. 736
A domestic remedy is “adequate” only when it is able to
address that particular human rights violation according to
international human rights law standards. 737 A complaint under
a substantial provision containing a right under international
human rights law must be arguable before the domestic
remedial mechanism. 738 It is not necessary that the specific
article of the human rights treaty be used as a ground of
judicial review. It is sufficient that the substance of the human
rights claim be arguable. 739
736
See, T. W. v. Malta, ECtHR, GC, Application No. 25644/94,
Judgment of 29 April 1999, para. 34; Iatridis v. Greece, ECtHR, GC,
Application No. 31107/96, Judgment of 25 March 1999, para. 47. A
comprehensive restatement of the European Convention’s admissibility
criteria together with the European Court’s jurisprudence is available
in the Practical Guide on Admissibility Criteria produced by the
Research Division of the European Court of Human Rights, and
available at http://www.echr.coe.int/NR/rdonlyres/91AEEEBC-B90F-
4913-ABCC-
E181A44B75AD/0/Practical_Guide_on_Admissibility_Criteria.pdf .
737
See, Danyal Shafiq v. Australia, CCPR, op. cit., fn. 687, para. 6.4;
Vélez Loor v. Panama, IACHR, Case 92-04, Report No. 95/06,
Admissibility Decision, 23 October 2006, para. 36; Velasquez
Rodriguez v. Honduras, IACtHR, op. cit., fn 799, para. 64; Godinez
Cruz v. Honduras, IACtHR, Series C No. 5, Judgment of 20 January
1989, para. 67; Garbi and Corrales v. Honduras, IACtHR, Series C, No.
6, Judgment of 15 March 1989, para. 88; Salah Sheekh v. the
Netherlands, ECtHR, op. cit., fn. 317, para. 121; Soldatenko v.
Ukraine, ECtHR, op. cit., fn. 361, para. 49; Shamayev and Others v.
Georgia and Russia, ECtHR, op. cit., fn. 434, para. 446.
738
Muminov v. Russia, ECtHR, op. cit., fn. 343, para. 99.
739
See, Fressoz and Roire v. France, ECtHR, GC, Application No.
29183/95, Judgment of 21 January 1999, paras. 33-37; Castells v.
Spain, ECtHR, Application No. 11798/85, Judgment of 23 April 1992,
paras. 24-32.