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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.

Any person, organization, or company that claims a violation of IBOR by government officials, agents, or employees, or any private individual or private or public company, may choose a trial by a judge or a jury of at least nine citizens, to decide if a violation has occurred, and if a jury, two thirds of the jurors must agree to reach a verdict. Any person, organization, or company may also obtain injunctive relief from the Court either stopping or requiring an act in accordance with the application of IBOR.

Any private individual, private or public company, or public official, agent, or employee of the government, as well as the government itself, that violates IBOR is not immune from liability, qualified or otherwise, and is responsible to pay damages, including attorney’s fees and costs, to the person or business whose rights have been violated.

 

To protect their rights, everyone is entitled to fair procedures. No one may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Everyone is entitled to counsel in a court of law when the rights in IBOR are at issue against the government, a government official, or a private individual acting closely with government officials or on behalf of the government.