Human rights regimes in the Americas /

The Americas have witnessed considerable progress in the field of human rights. Although painful legacies persist, large-scale, systematic human rights violations of the kind common during Latin America's dictatorships are hopefully never to return. Yet abuses of rights and challenges to the ru...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Serrano, Mónica, Popovski, Vesselin
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, ©2010.
Sujets:
Human rights > America.
Democracy > America.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Amérique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Democracy
Human rights
Social conditions
Menschenrecht
Mänskliga rättigheter > Förenta staterna.
Mänskliga rättigheter > Kanada.
Mänskliga rättigheter > Latinamerika.
Mänskliga rättigheter > Amerika.
America > Social conditions.
America
Amerika
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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