"Throughout the Commonwealth Caribbean, various legal challenges have been brought to the imposition of the death penalty, the most recent series of which deals with the mandatory nature of the penalty's imposition for crimes of murder (or in some states, certain categories of murder). Efforts undertaken since the mid-1990s to challenge the legality of a mandatory death sentence finally paid off in 2002, when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Privy Council), acting as the highest appellate court for all but one of the Commonwealth Caribbean states, held in a series of three cases that such a sentence was contrary to the prohibition on inhuman punishment and therefore unconstitutional." (author)
Discusses the highlights of a seminar on democracy, freedom and reproductive rights sponsored by Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Chile in Santiago, Chile on June 21, 2011. The event recognized abortion as a priority issue in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
Rodríguez Garavito,César A. (Author), Alfonso Sierra,Tatiana (Author), Cavelier Adarve,Isabel (Author), and Antonio Rosero,Eliana Fernanda (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bogotá, DC: Observatorio de Discriminación Racial : Programa de Justicia Global y Derechos Humanos y CIJUS, Universidad de los Andes : Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN) : Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad (Dejusticia)
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
