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The Inter-American System of Human Rights
Abstract Since the 1990s, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has built a rich and innovative body of case law and established itself as the core of an authentically regional system of rights and justice. It adopted key principles that had emerged at the European Court of Human Rights, including evolutive interpretation of rights ...Alec Stone Sweet, Wayne Sandholtz
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The Inter-American Human Rights System
2009The Inter-American human rights system has several bodies dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights (i.e., the Inter-American Children's Institute). The focus of this discussion is, however, on the following two independent organs of the Organization of American States (OAS) namely: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights The ...
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The Inter-American System of Human Rights
1998Abstract 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 ...
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The Inter-American human rights system
2015Applying humanitarian law The Inter-American Commission was faced with situations of armed conflict in the southern hemisphere of the Inter-American human rights system soon after it had become operational in 1960. To date, no other human rights monitoring body has gone further than the Commission in speaking out on violations of human rights and ...
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The Future of the Inter-American Human Rights System
2019Abstract This chapter begins by critically appraising the efficacy of the inter-American system of human rights and recent shifts in the jurisprudence of the Commission and Court. It then turns to proposals for improving the system’s mechanisms for protecting and promoting human rights.
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Remedies of the Inter-American Human Rights System
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting, 2017In this presentation, I would like to focus on the latest developments concerning remedies established by the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS), and offer some suggestions to reform both the content of reparations as well as the Inter-American Court's process for supervising reparations.
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Canada and the Inter-American Human Rights System
International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis, 2012INTRODUCTIONWhen Canada became a Member of the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1990, most of Latin America was at a crossroad in a post-cold war transition from authoritarian regimes to democracies. The Canadian government played a fundamental role in the creation and development of the organization's unit for the promotion of democracy, as ...
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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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6. The Inter-American Human Rights System
This chapter discusses the Inter-American human rights system, created within the framework of the Organization of American States (OAS). It covers the system’s historical development, from its creation to its current institutional design. The chapter engages with the main organs of the system, the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights ...Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade +1 more
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The Role of Country Reports in the Inter American System of Human Rights
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 1997Abstract The power to prepare country reports is vested in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter the Commission), an organ that operates under both the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter the American Convention) and the Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS).
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