LEADER 02980nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910456366803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a92-808-7145-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019423 035 $a(EBL)728603 035 $a(OCoLC)697174326 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000470123 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11297596 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470123 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10413078 035 $a(PQKB)11721661 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC728603 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL728603 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10397560 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019423 100 $a20091207d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aHuman rights regimes in the Americas$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Mo?nica Serrano and Vesselin Popovski 210 $aNew York $cUnited Nations University$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a92-808-1176-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; 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 327 $a10 Battling against the odds: Human rights in hard times11 Human rights in the Americas: Progress, challenges andprospects; Index 330 $aThe 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 606 $aHuman rights$zAmerica 606 $aDemocracy$zAmerica 607 $aAmerica$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHuman rights 615 0$aDemocracy 676 $a323.097 701 $aSerrano$b Mo?nica$0878807 701 $aPopovski$b Vesselin$0889693 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456366803321 996 $aHuman rights regimes in the Americas$92003048 997 $aUNINA