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Institutional change and the Inter-American Human Rights System [PDF]
The International Journal of Human Rights, 2018 This article introduces the special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights on institutional change in the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS).
Par Engstrom, Courtney Hillebrecht
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Informed Consent as a Human Right in the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS). [PDF]
Dev World BioethABSTRACT Informed consent is presented as a fundamental right and principle in modern medical practice. It involves obtaining permission from a patient before any medical procedure, treatment, or research protocol. Although not explicitly recognized as a standalone right in international human rights instruments, informed consent in ...
Bernal-Camargo DR, Gómez-Córdoba AI.
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Inter-American Human Rights System
Abstract A holistic analysis of the impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System requires understanding why the System is relevant, its structuring components, and how does it foster structural transformations within member States.
Mariela Morales Antoniazzi, +2 more
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The Inter-American Human Rights System
Choice Reviews Online, 2020 This book critically examines the impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS). Going beyond traditional state compliance models of human rights impact, it develops a contextual understanding of how the IAHRS shapes political struggles ...
Engström, Pär,
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Human Rights Quarterly, 2009 This article examines the historical origins of the Inter-American human rights system and key achievements of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights over the past fifty years. It explores the Commission’s use of on sight visits and country reports to expose human rights violations of military governments during the 1970s and its increased ...
Goldman, Robert K.
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The Experience of the Inter-American Human Rights System
Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 2009 This article is one of four which provide a useful comparative paradigm to any discussion of a Pacific human rights charter or regional mechanism. The article describes the Inter-American system of human rights protection, which stretches across the Americas.
González, Felipe
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The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System
Abstract The Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) fosters structural transformations throughout the Americas. This collection of analyses builds upon the studies on Ius Constitutionale Commune en América Latina and Latin American transformative constitutionalism to map out both the ground-level human rights impact of the IAHRS ...
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The right to strike in the Inter-American System of Human Rights
Revue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale, 2023 The objective of this article is to analyse the Extrabajadores case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR). On this occasion, the regional international court declared for the first time the direct and autonomous justiciability of the right to strike.
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Dignity as a Right in the Inter-American Human Rights System
, 2021 The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has declared the violation of the right to dignity in various judgments based on the provisions of section 11 of the American Convention on Human Rights, whichestablishes the right to respect of honor and recognition of dignity. This section does not refer to the right to dignity explicitly, but it has been used
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The Human Right to Defend Human Rights in the Inter-American System
Abstract How does the Inter-American System react to violations of the rights of human rights defenders in the configuration of what has been called the right to defend rights? This is the central question that this chapter aims to critically analyze.
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