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Preventing Irreparable Harm: Provisional Measures in International Human Rights Adjudication (School of Human Rights Research)

International human rights adjudicators, while facing urgent cases, have used provisional measures in order to prevent irreparable harm, e.g. to order States to halt an expulsion, the execution of a death sentence, the destruction of the natural habitat, as well as to ensure access to health care in detention or protection against death threats. In the practice of …

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