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ACOSTA-LOPEZ, Juana Inés  e  LONDONO-LAZARO, María Carmelina. THE ROLE OF DOMESTIC JUSTICE IN THE GUARANTEE OF THE RIGHT TO AN EFFECTIVE INTERNATIONAL REMEDY. Int. Law: Rev. Colomb. Derecho Int. [online]. 2010, n.16, pp.81-113. ISSN 1692-8156.

This paper addresses the important role of the domestic justice in the protection of the right to access to international justice, and in our case the Inter-American justice. Within this purpose, the text explains the existence of a right to an effective international remedy in the Inter-American Human Rights System, and describes some of its peculiarities. Also, it shows the importance of national justice in the effectiveness of the international remedy and addresses certain issues with regard to the implementation of international judgments in the domestic sphere, considering that international rulings are binding and have the same nature of national judicial decisions. Finally, the paper deals with some reflections on possible internal remedies to comply with international rulings in Colombia.

Palavras-chave : Inter-American Human Rights System; Inter-American Court of Human Rights; International Judicial Decisions; Effective remedies; Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Inter-American Human Rights System; International law.

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