monitoring judgment entails obtaining information on the latter, in order to inform the
General Assembly of any eventual failure to comply with it.
A more extensive version of the foregoing, taking into consideration, as I have indicated
previously,17 on the one hand, that strict respect by the Court for the norms that govern it
is a requirement sine qua non for the proper safeguard of human rights and, on the other
hand, case law as a subsidiary means for the determination of the rules of law18 and its
obligatory nature only for the parties to the litigation and with regard to the case that has
been decided,19 so that, consequently, it can be modified in other cases, can be found in the
undersigned’s Concurring Opinions to the orders of the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights of November 22, 2011, Case of Blanco Romero et al. v. Venezuela and Case of
Servellón García et al. v. Honduras, and of November 23, 2011, Case of the Saramaka
People v. Suriname, Monitoring compliance with judgment.
Eduardo Vio Grossi
Judge
Pablo Saavedra Alessandri
Secretary
16
Art. 69.
Dissenting Opinions with regard to the judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Merits,
reparations and costs. Case of Barbani et al. v. Uruguay, of October 13, 2011, III. General considerations.
18
Arts. 62(1) and 3 of the Convention and 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice.
19
Arts. 63(1) of the Convention and 59 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice.
17
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