Suárez De Guerrero v. Colombia

Abstract

State responsibility — Nature and kinds of — For wrongs unconnected with contractual obligations — Acts and omissions of State organs and officials — Connected with legislation — Victim killed during police operation — Whether action proportionate to requirements of law enforcement — lntemational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 — 0ptional Protocol — United Nations Human Rights Committee

The individual in international law — In general — Human rights and freedoms — Right to life — Arbitrary deprivation of life — Victim killed during police operation — State of emergency — Whether action proportionate to requirements of law enforcement — Whether right to life adequately protected by law — International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966, Article 6 — Optional Protocol — United Nations Human Rights Committee — Procedure — Exhaustion of domestic remedies — State's right of derogation from rights protected under Covenant — Whether necessary to consider alleged violations of other articles of Covenant