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Human rights regimes in the Americas / edited by Mónica Serrano and Vesselin Popovski.

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Human rights regimes in the Americas / edited by Mónica Serrano and Vesselin Popovski.
Publication
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Serrano, Mónica.
  • Popovski, Vesselin.
  • United Nations University. Press.
Description
xii, 268 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
This publication examines the complex role of human rights norms and standards in the region's progression, illustrating the evolution and impact of international conventions, laws and institutions. The chapters combine historical detail with a focus on present day challenges for the regional and domestic human rights regimes, highlighting particular obstacles, successful approaches and strategies. Taking the reader through cases in North, Central and South America, the volume provides an account of the evolving regional environment for rights protection and promotion.--Publisher's description.
Subject
  • Human rights > America
  • Democracy > America
  • America > Social conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The human rights regime in the Americas : theory and reality / Mónica Serrano -- Why the human rights regime in the Americas matters / Par Engstrom and Andrew Hurrell -- Democracy, human rights and the United States : tradition and mutation / Tom Farer -- Strengthening the protection of human rights in the Americas : a role for Canada? / Bernard Duhaime -- Human rights and the state in Latin America / Ramesh Thakur and Jorge Heine -- Human rights in context : Brazil / Fiona Macaulay -- Human rights and democracy in Chile / Felipe González -- Human rights in Cuba and the international system / Ana Covarrubias -- Actors and processes in the generation of change in the human rights policy in Mexico / Alejandro Anaya Muñoz -- Battling against the odds : human rights in hard times / José Miguel Vivanco and Daniel Wilkinson -- Human rights in the Americas : progress, challenges and prospects / Nicholas Turner and Vesselin Popovski.
ISBN
  • 9789280811766 (pbk.)
  • 9280811762 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2009049761
OCLC
476836774
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library