[Patricia Tarre Moser is an Attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The views expressed here are her own.] The international law doctrine of sovereign immunity has proved to be a powerful obstacle to effective enforcement of international human rights.  Domestic and international courts have begun to carve out some exceptions to sovereign immunity in individual cases, but as the … Continue reading Emerging Voices: Unilateral Withholding of Sovereign Immunity as a Counter-Measure Against Jus Cogens Violations — the Human Rights Answer to Ferrini