Human rights regimes in the Americas [electronic resource] / edited by Mónica Serrano and Vesselin Popovski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Serrano, Mónica.

Popovski, Vesselin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--America.

Human rights.

Democracy--America.

Democracy.

America--Social conditions.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations University, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 rule of law have not disappeared completely, but rather taken on a different and elusive character. At the same time, the relatively good records of the developed North American countries continue to be undermined by their inconsistent approaches both at home and abroad.Human Rights Regimes in the Americas

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 The human rights regime in the Americas: Theory and reality; 2 Why the human rights regime in the Americas matters; 3 Democracy, human rights and the United States: Tradition andmutation; 4 Strengthening the protection of human rights in the Americas:A role for Canada?; 5 Human rights and the state in Latin America; 6 Human rights in context: Brazil; 7 Human rights and democracy in Chile; 8 Human rights in Cuba and the international system; 9 Actors and processes in the generation of change in thehuman rights policy of Mexico

10 Battling against the odds: Human rights in hard times11 Human rights in the Americas: Progress, challenges andprospects; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

92-808-7145-5

OCLC:

697174326