Regional Human Rights Systems Volume V 1st Edition by Christina Cerna ISBN 1409439119 978-1409439110

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ISBN 10:  1409439119 

ISBN 13: 978-1409439110

Author:  Christina M. Cerna
Over the past sixty years the regional human rights systems have surpassed the UN human rights bodies in affording protection to the victims of human rights violations. Most of these systems have courts that are empowered to issue legally binding judgments and reparations for violations of human rights, which states have been unwilling to accord the UN system. The essays selected for this volume examine the structure and functioning of the principal regional human rights systems in the world today: 1) the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, 2) the European Court of Human Rights, 3) the African Commission and Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights and 4) the ASEAN Intergovernmental Human Rights Commission. These systems guarantee primarily civil and political rights. Central to all four systems is the necessity of a democratic form of government to guarantee these rights, although not all governments, parties to these regional treaties, are democracies. These articles trace the history of these systems, in particular, the expansion of their membership to include almost all independent countries in the region, and their evolution towards recognition of a ‘right to democracy’.

Table of contents: 

Introduction and Bibliography
1 Introduction
2 Bibliography

Part I: Overview
3 Innovations in the European system of human rights protection: is enlargement compatible with reinforcement? – Peter Leuprecht

Part II: The Inter-American System
4 The forgotten crucible: the Latin American influence on the universal human rights idea – Mary Ann Glendon
5 Introduction – Jo M. Pasqualucci
6 State compliance with court-ordered reparations – Jo M. Pasqualucci
7 The revised OAS Charter and the protection of human rights – Thomas Buergenthal
8 The inter-American human rights system at the dawn of the new century: recommendations for improvement of its mechanism of protection – Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
9 The inter-American system for the protection of human rights – Christina M. Cerna
10 History and action: the inter-American human rights system and the role of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights – Robert K. Goldman
11 United States ratification of the American Convention on Human Rights – Joseph Diab
12 The role of the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights in the protection of human rights: achievements and contemporary challenges – Mónica Pinto

Part III: The European System
13 The European Court of Human Rights – Christiane Bourloyannis-Vrailas
14 The European Court of Human Rights after 50 years – Anthony Lester
15 Rethinking the European Court of Human Rights – Luzius Wildhaber
16 The European Court of Human Rights: the past, the present, the future – Luzius Wildhaber
17 Europe as a common home (address to the Council of Europe, 6 July 1989) – Mikhail Gorbachev
18 Speech delivered at the ‘Strasbourg dialogues’ public forum, 2 October 2009 – Mikhail Gorbachev
19 Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly, Opinion 193 (1996), application by Russia for membership of the Council of Europe
20 A human rights law of internal armed conflict: the European Court of Human Rights in Chechnya – William Abresch
21 ‘Gentlemen at home, hoodlums elsewhere?

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