Americas - Latin American countries violating international law

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Last month, Venezuela defied a judgment by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights while Honduras rebuffed a request from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Both countries are nonetheless members of the Organization of American States and the OAS human rights system created by the San José Pact. This defiance of the system has become common and is very worrying. On 10 September, Venezuela's supreme court ruled that a judgment issued three days before by the (...)

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