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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : United Nations University, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.097
• Soggetto topico: Human rights - America; Democracy - America
• Soggetto geografico: America Social conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SerranoMónica PopovskiVesselin
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Human rights regimes in the Americas
• ISBN: 92-808-7145-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456366803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II