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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book gives a fresh and fascinating analytical account of the Inter-American Convention of Human Rights, a pact that includes substantive guarantees of economic, social, and cultural rights. These guarantees are examined not only from the US perspective, but also from a Latin American angle, with a considerable focus on amnesty, emergencies, and the protection of minorities and indigenous peoples. Zusammenfassung An analytical account of the Inter-American Convention of Human Rights - which includes substantive guarantees of economic, social and cultural rights. These guarantees are examined from the US and Latin-American perspective, focusing on the protection of minorities and indigenous peoples. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Harris: Regional Protection of Human of Human Rights: the Inter American Achievement 2: Farer: The Rise of the Inter American Human Rights Regime: No Longer a Unicorn, Not Yet an Ox 3: Cesna: The Inter American Commission on Human Rights: Its Organisation and Examination of Petitions and Communications 4: Medina: The Role of Country Reports in the Inter American System of Human Rights 5: Trinidade: The Operation of the Inter American Court of Human Rights (1979-1996) 6: Shelton: Reparations in the Inter-American System 7: Gomez: The Interaction Between the Political Actors of the OAS, the Commission and the Court 8: Davidson: The Civil and Political Rights Protected in the Inter-American System 9: Craven: The Protection of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights under the Inter-American System of Human Rights 10: Hannum: The Protection of Indigenous Peoples in the Inter-American System 11: Lutz: Responses to Amnesties by the Inter American System for the Protection of Human Rights 12: Fitzpatrick: States of Emergency in the Inter American System 13: Trinidade: The Inter American System at the Dawn of a New Century: Recommendations for Improvement of its Mechanism of Protection 14: Vivanco and Bhansali: Procedural Shortcomings in the Defence of Human Rights: An Inequality of Arms Appendices ...
