The ICCAL project builds, in large part, on inter-American human rights treaties and their application and interpretation by the main regional human rights organs: the Commission and the Court. Thus, an important part of the critique raised against this project is directed toward the activities of such institutions. In this intervention I will break down some of the points of critique, namely: the nature and extent of anti-state bias on behalf of the Commission and Court (i); the characteristics of resistance and backlash within the inter-American system (ii); supposed lack of responsiveness of the system’s organs toward state contestation; and (iii) how this purportedly has contributed to the challenges faced by the regional human rights system.
Our 2020 Annual Conference was scheduled to be held at the University of Wrocław in Poland on July 9-11, 2020.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ICON·S Executive Committee has decided to postpone our 2020 Conference to 2021. Our next Annual Conference will take place from July 8-10, 2021, in Wrocław, Poland.
Procedural details regarding the organization of the 2021 Conference will follow in the months ahead.
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