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IBOR establishes a minimum standard to which all people are entitled and is superior to any conflicting law. Any country may enact a law or interpret its own Constitution to provide for rights greater than those IBOR guarantees.

The rights in IBOR are enforceable in the Courts of all countries, Regional Courts, and the International Court of Human Rights.

The judges’ terms for the International Court of Human Rights and the Regional Courts shall be 6 years. Judges may serve up to three terms. Each judge shall have four law clerks, selected by the judge, with at least two of the four coming from countries other than the country that nominated the judge.

 

An International Court of Human Rights shall be created and begin hearing cases when 50 countries have ratified IBOR without reservations. The Court shall include one judge from each country that ratifies IBOR. Regional Courts, subject to review by the International Court, and including one judge from each country in the region, shall also be organized through the continued operation of existing Regional Courts and the creation of new ones.

IBOR benefits all citizens and businesses, therefore, each ratifying country shall annually contribute 1% of its gross national product to an international fund for the creation, use, and support of education, healthcare and judicial facilities and salaries internationally. This includes the Courts described in articles 27-34. An international non-governmental organization, comprised of leaders appointed in a similar manner to the appointment of judges on the International Court of Human Rights described below, will distribute this funding in an independent, impartial manner without favoritism to the country from which they were appointed.

Judges are obligated to provide a fair, impartial interpretation of IBOR, and are beholden to the rights in the document, not the person or the nation that appointed them or any other nation or private entity. No one shall give a judge any money, gift, or service other than a salary paid by the government in an amount that is made public, and no party to a case, nor any person acting on his or her behalf, may speak to a judge about a case without the presence of, or at least knowledge of, the other party. Judicial independence requires financial independence, and any judge must earn at least three times the national median income in the country where they preside.