PARTIALLY DISSENTING OPINION OF
JUDGE HUMBERTO ANTONIO SIERRA PORTO
INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
CASE OF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MARITIME AND PORT WORKERS
(FEMAPOR) V. PERU
JUDGMENT OF FEBRUARY 1, 2022
(Preliminary Objections, Merits and Reparations)
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With the customary respect for the majority decisions of the Inter-American Court of
Human Rights (hereinafter “the Court”), this opinion has the purpose of explaining my
disagreement with Operating Paragraph 5, which declares the international responsibility of
the State of Peru (hereinafter “the State” or “Peru”) for violating the rights to work and to
property to the detriment of the victims listed in Annex II of the judgment. This opinion is
based on the position already expressed in my partially dissenting opinions in Lagos del
Campo v. Peru, 1 Dismissed Employees of Petroperú et al. v. Peru, 2 San Miguel Sosa et al. v.
Venezuela, 3 Cuscul Pivaral et al. v. Guatemala, 4 Muelle Flores v. Peru, 5 Discharged and
Retired Employees of the National Association of the National Tax Administration
Superintendence (ANCEJUB-SUNAT) v. Peru, 6 Hernández v. Argentina, 7 Indigenous
Communities of the Association of Lhaka Honhat (Our Land) v. Argentina, 8 Guachalá Chimbo
Cf. Case of Lagos del Campo v. Peru. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of
August 31, 2017. Series C No. 340. Partially dissenting opinion of Judge Humberto Antonio Sierra Porto.
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Cf. Case of the Dismissed Workers of Petroperú et al. v. Peru. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations
and Costs. Judgment of November 23, 2017. Series C No. 344. Partially dissenting opinion of Judge Humberto Antonio
Sierra Porto.
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Cf. Case of San Miguel Sosa et al. v. Venezuela. Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of February 8,
2018. Series C No. 348. Partially dissenting opinion of Judge Humberto Antonio Sierra Porto.
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Cf. Case of Cuscul Pivaral et al. v. Guatemala. Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations and Costs.
Judgment of August 23, 2018. Series C No. 359. Partially dissenting opinion of Judge Humberto Antonio Sierra Porto.
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Cf. Case of Muelle Flores v. Peru. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of March
6, 2019. Series C No. 375. Partially dissenting opinion of Judge Humberto Antonio Sierra Porto.
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Cf. Case of the Discharged and Retired Employees of the National Association of the National Tax
Administration Superintendence (ANCEJUB-SUNAT) v. Peru. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations and Costs.
Judgment of November 21, 2019. Series C No. 394. Partially dissenting opinion of Judge Humberto Antonio Sierra
Porto.
Cf. Case of Hernández v. Argentina. Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgment of
November 22, 2019. Series C No. 395. Partially dissenting opinion of Judge Humberto Antonio Sierra Porto.
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Cf. Case of the Indigenous Communities of the Association of Lhaka Honhat (Our Land) v. Argentina. Merits,
Reparations and Costs. Judgment of February 6, 2020. Series C No. 400. Partially dissenting opinion of Judge
Humberto Antonio Sierra Porto.
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