INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
CASE OF NADEGE DORZEMA ET AL. v. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
JUDGMENT OF OCTOBER 24, 2012
(Merits, reparations and costs)
In the case of Nadege Dorzema et al.,
the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court” or “the
Court,”), composed of the following judges:1
Diego García-Sayán, President
Manuel E. Ventura Robles, Vice-President
Leonardo A. Franco, Judge
Margarette May Macaulay, Judge
Alberto Pérez Pérez, Judge
Eduardo Vío Grossi, Judge, and
also present,
Pablo Saavedra Alessandri, Secretary, and
Emilia Segares Rodríguez, Deputy Secretary;
in accordance with Articles 62(3) and 63(1) of the American Convention on Human Rights
(hereinafter “the Convention” or “the American Convention”) and to Articles 31, 32, 65 and
67 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court 2 (hereinafter “the Rules of Procedure”), delivers
this Judgment structured as follows:
1
In accordance with Article 19(1) of the Rules of the Inter-American Court applicable to this case (infra note
2), which established that “[i]n the cases referred to in Article 44 of the Convention, a Judge who is a national of
the respondent State shall not be able to participate in the hearing and deliberation of the case,” Judge Rhadys
Abreu Blondet, a Dominican national, did not take part in the processing of this case or in the deliberation and
signature of this Judgment.
2
The Court’s Rules of Procedure approved by the Court at its eighty-fifth regular session held from
November 16 to 28, 2009.