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

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