Immunities of International Organizations
Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations
Embracing mainstream international law, this section on privileges and immunities of international organizations explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.
Case Law on the Immunities of International Organizations
Main court decisions:
- Manderlier v. Organisation des Nations Unies and Etat Belge (Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres), Tribunal Civil de Bruxelles, 11 May 1966, Journal des Tribunaux, 10 December 1966, No. 4553, 121,
- Abdi Hosh Askir v. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Joseph E. Connor et al., US District Court SDNY, 29 July 1996, 933 F. Suppl. 368 (SDNY 1996),
- Difference Relating to Immunity from Legal Process of a Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, advisory opinion, [1999] ICJ Reports 62,
- Beer and Regan v. Germany, App. No. 28934/95 and Waite and Kennedy v. Germany, App. No. 26083/94, European Court of Human Rights, 18 February 1999,
- League of Arab States v. T., Belgian Court of Cassation, 127 ILR (2005) 94, 12 March,
- Prewitt Enterprises Inc and ors v Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Appeal judgment, 353 F3d 916 (11th Cir 2003); ILDC 715 (US 2003),
- Entico Ltd. v. UNESCO, [2008] EWHC 531 (Comm),
- Western European Union v Siedler, and others, Belgian Court of Cassation, 21 December 2009,
- OSS Nokalva, Inc. v. Eur. Space Agency, Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 617 F.3d 756 (US 3d Cir. 2010),
- Mothers of Srebrenica v. The Netherlands & the UN, LJN: BW1999, Dutch Supreme Court, 13 April 2012 AND Stichting Mothers of Srebrenica and Others against the Netherlands, App. No. 65542/12, European Court of Human Rights,
Resources
Further Reading
- The entry “privileges and immunities of international organizations” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press
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