The International Court of Justice ruled in favor of Mexico and found that the United States violated the rights of almost all of the Mexican foreign nationals on death row in the U.S. The World Court, which is the highest legal organ of the United Nations and is based in The Hague, has ordered that the Mexican cases be reviewed by U.S. courts. The defendants were not informed of their right to talk to consular officials after being arrested, as provided by the Vienna Convention on Consular Rights. “The remedy to make good these violations should consist in an obligation on the United States to permit review and reconsideration of these nationals’ cases by the United States courts,” the Court said in its ruling. Of the 51 foreign nationals named in Mexico’s case, three have exhausted their ordinary appeals in the U.S. court system. The Court said that the United States should make an exception and review their cases one more time. (Associated Press and Reuters, March 31, 2004). Read the World Court’s decision. See Foreign Nationals. See International Death Penalty.