This book gives a fresh and fascinating analytical account of the Inter-American Convention of Human Rights, a pact that includes substantive guarantees of economic, social, and cultural rights. These guarantees are examined not only from the US perspective, but also from a Latin American angle, with a considerable focus on amnesty, emergencies, and the protection of minorities and indigenous peoples.

• 1: Harris: Regional Protection of Human of Human Rights: the Inter American Achievement


• 2: Farer: The Rise of the Inter American Human Rights Regime: No Longer a Unicorn, Not Yet an Ox


• 3: Cesna: The Inter American Commission on Human Rights: Its Organisation and Examination of Petitions and Communications


• 4: Medina: The Role of Country Reports in the Inter American System of Human Rights


• 5: Trinidade: The Operation of the Inter American Court of Human Rights (1979-1996)


• 6: Shelton: Reparations in the Inter-American System


• 7: Gomez: The Interaction Between the Political Actors of the OAS, the Commission and the Court


• 8: Davidson: The Civil and Political Rights Protected in the Inter-American System


• 9: Craven: The Protection of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights under the Inter-American System of Human Rights


• 10: Hannum: The Protection of Indigenous Peoples in the Inter-American System


• 11: Lutz: Responses to Amnesties by the Inter American System for the Protection of Human Rights


• 12: Fitzpatrick: States of Emergency in the Inter American System


• 13: Trinidade: The Inter American System at the Dawn of a New Century: Recommendations for Improvement of its Mechanism of Protection


• 14: Vivanco and Bhansali: Procedural Shortcomings in the Defence of Human Rights: An Inequality of Arms


• Appendices

Professor David Harris is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Nottingham, Dr Stephen Livingstone is a Reader in Law at the same institution.