2023-10-20 01:30:00
Mexico City, October 20, 2023.- Justice providers from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico were honored for establishing criteria in favor of the protection of the human rights of people on the move.
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) of Mexico, through the First Chamber, obtained FIRST PLACE with Amparo in Review 388/2022. The ruling addresses the maximum time that migrants can remain detained in immigration stations. The case involves detention at the Matamoros Immigration Station, Tamaulipas. The SCJN applied the substitution of deficient complaint figure to evaluate the protection of the rights of migrants and concluded that the established deadlines contradicted the maximum constitutional time limit for deprivation of liberty for administrative reasons.
SECOND PLACE belonged to the Constitutional Court of Ecuador with Case 2496-21-EP. Through this resolution The Court analyzed a second instance ruling related to the right to request asylum, the principle of non-refoulement and the impact on other fundamental rights. In this case, this court focused on the case of a Venezuelan teenager who requested asylum in Ecuador and was scheduled to be returned to Venezuela. The Ecuadorian Constitutional Court highlighted the importance of considering psychological effects and the principle of non-refoulement in similar cases involving girls, boys and adolescents.
THIRD PLACE was awarded to the Constitutional Court of Colombia with ruling T-189 of 2023. This ruling dealt with the annulment of the civil birth registration and citizenship card of a Venezuelan citizen. The Colombian Constitutional Court emphasized the importance of the right to legal personality and due process, as well as the need to guarantee access to civil and political rights for those affected by arbitrary administrative procedures.
SPECIAL MENTIONS They were granted to the Amparo Trial 1956/2022 of the Seventh District Court in Puebla and to the Litigation Team by common procedure action No. 2020/020-03215.
During the Ninth Regional Forum, the award ceremony for the 2023 Sentencias Prize was held, and with the participation of experts on the subject, reflection was made on immigration detention in the Americas and the advances and good practices that States have promoted with the passage of the years. The award-winning sentences set precedents in the protection of people on the move.
Convening Organizations:
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR); the Mexican Association of Justice Providers, AC (AMIJ); the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Migrants of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNDH); the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CoIDH), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, the Rapporteurship on the rights of migrants (IACHR), the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers, the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City (CDHCM), the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) and Sin Fronteras IAP.
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