The Inter-American System of Human Rights
Published on 11. June 1998
Book
Hardback
616 pages
978-0-19-826552-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book, which can be used as a text for teaching purposes, gives a fascinating, and authoritative treatment both the rights protected by the Inter-American system and of the way in which its institutions work. An important part of the book is a thorough, article by article account of the guarantee in the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man and in the American Convention on Human Rights of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights in the light of the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and of the Commission's many country reports on the human rights situation in particular states. There are also chapters on the rights of indigenous peoples, amnesty laws and states of emergencies. The evolution and current methods of work of the Commission and the Court are set out at length and their achievements are critically assessed. The role of non-governmental organisations is also examined in this context. The book will be invaluable to all those interested in the protection of human rights in the Americas and international human rights law generally.
Reviews / Votes
Destined to be the standard work for the forseeable future on the Inter-American human rights system ... this weighty volume towers above other books on the subject ... Fourteen specialists ... give rounded, detailed, and thought-provoking observations ... a tome to which scholars and students of international human rights law will frequently refer. * C. E. Welch, SUNY at Buffalo, Choice, Feb 1999, Vol 36, no 6 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1086 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-826552-8 (9780198265528)
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Persons
Professor David Harris is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Nottingham, Dr Stephen Livingstone is a Reader in Law at the same institution.
Content
1. Regional Protection of Human of Human Rights: the Inter American Achievement ; 2. The Rise of the Inter American Human Rights Regime: No Longer a Unicorn, Not Yet an Ox ; 3. The Inter American Commission on Human Rights: Its Organisation and Examination of Petitions and Communications ; 4. The Role of Country Reports in the Inter American System of Human Rights ; 5. The Operation of the Inter American Court of Human Rights (1979-1996) ; 6. Reparations in the Inter-American System ; 7. The Interaction Between the Political Actors of the OAS, the Commission and the Court ; 8. The Civil and Political Rights Protected in the Inter-American System ; 9. The Protection of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights under the Inter-American System of Human Rights ; 10. The Protection of Indigenous Peoples in the Inter-American System ; 11. Responses to Amnesties by the Inter American System for the Protection of Human Rights ; 12. States of Emergency in the Inter American System ; 13. The Inter American System at the Dawn of a New Century: Recommendations for Improvement of its Mechanism of Protection ; 14. Procedural Shortcomings in the Defence of Human Rights: An Inequality of Arms ; Appendices