Inter-American system of human rights /

Inter-American system of human rights / edited by David J. Harris and Stephen Livingstone. - Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1998. - xxv, 588 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-451) and index.

Regional protection of human rights : the inter-American achievement / Rise of the inter-American human rights regime : no longer a unicorn, not yet an ox / Inter-American commission on human rights : its organisation and examination of petitions and communications / Role of country reports in the inter-American system of human rights / Operation of the inter-American court of human rights / Reparations in the inter-American system / Interaction between the political actors of the OAS, the commission and the court / Civil and political rights protected in the inter-American human rights system / Protection of economic, social and cultural rights under the inter-American system of human rights / Protection of indigenous rights in the inter-American system / Responses to amnesties by the inter-American system for the protection of human rights / States of emergency in the inter-American human rights system / Inter-American human rights system at the dawn of at the new century : recommendations for improvement of its mechanism of protection / Procedural shortcomings in the defense of human rights : an inequality of arms / David Harris -- Tom Farer -- Christina Cerna -- Cecilia Medina -- Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade -- Dinah Shelton -- Verónica Gómez -- Scott Davidson -- Matthew Craven -- Hurst Hannum -- Ellen Lutz -- Joan Fitzpatrick -- Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade -- José Miguel Vivanco and Lisa L. Bhansali.

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