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This book explores the comparative historical evolution of the European, Inter-American and African regional human rights systems. The book devotes attention to various factors that have shaped the systems: the different circumstances in which they were founded; the influence of major states and inter-state politics within their respective regions; gradual processes of institutional evolution; and the impact of human rights advocates and claimants. Throughout, the book devotes careful attention to the impact of institutional and procedural choices on the functioning of human rights systems. Overarchingly, the book explores the contextually-generated differences between the three systems, suggesting that human rights practice is less unitary than it might at times appear. Prescriptively, the book proposes that, contrary to the received wisdom in some quarters, the Inter-American system's dual-track approach may provide the most promising model in regards to future human rights system design.

International human rights courts. --- Human rights courts, International --- International courts --- International human rights courts

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This book studies how victims of human rights violations in Latin America, their families, and their advocates work to overcome entrenched impunity and seek legal justice. Their struggles show that legal justice is a multifaceted process, the overarching purpose of which is to restore human dignity and prevent further violence. Uncovering, revealing, and proving the truth are essential elements of legal justice, and are also powerful tools to activate the process. When faced with stubborn impunity at home, victims, families, and advocates can carry on their work for legal justice by bringing cases in courts in other countries or in the inter-American human rights system. These extra-territorial courts can jump-start the process of legal justice at home. Seeking Human Rights Justice in Latin America examines the political and legal struggle through the lens of the human story at the heart of these cases.

International human rights courts --- Human rights courts, International --- International courts --- Law --- General and Others

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This book analyses the legal framework for refugee protection in Africa, including both refugee and human rights law as well as treaty and institutional elements. The regime is addressed in two parts. Part One analyses the relevant treaties: the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the 1969 Organization of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa and the 1981 African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights. The latter two regional instruments are examined in depth. This includes the first fulsome account of the African Refugee Conventions drafting, an interpretation of its unique refugee definition and original analysis of the relationships between the three treaties. Significant attention is devoted to the systemic relationship between the international and the regional refugee treaties and to the discrete relationships of conflict and complementary relationships between the two refugee instruments, as well as to the relationships between the African Refugee Convention and African Charter.Part Two focuses on the institutional architecture supporting the treaty framework. The Organization of African Unity is addressed in a historical sense, and the contemporary roles of the African Union, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights and the current and contemplated African human rights courts are examined. This book is the first devoted to the legal framework for refugee protection in Africa.

Refugees --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Asylum, Right of --- International human rights courts --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Refugees - Legal status, laws, etc. - Africa. --- Asylum, Right of - Africa. --- International human rights courts - Africa.

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Biographical note: Nivedita Prasad, Prof. Dr., ist seit 2013 Professorin an der Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin. Katrin Muckenfuss ist Dozentin am Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit, Fachhochschule St. Gallen. Andreas Foitzik, Geschäftsführer »adis e.V.« – Antidiskriminierung, Empowerment, Praxisentwicklung Tübingen Long description: Das Buch bereitet 20 Fälle zu Entscheidungen nationaler und internationaler Gerichte/ Gremien im Kontext von Menschenrechts- und Grundrechtsverletzungen auf. Dabei wird die Bedeutung dieser Urteile für die Praxis diskriminierungskritischer (Sozialer) Arbeit herausgestellt, z.B. im Zusammenhang mit Racial Profiling oder Diskriminierungen beim Zugang zu Wohnen, Arbeit oder Dienstleistungen. Es bietet eine Handlungsorientierung für Praktiker*innen der Antidiskriminierungs- und Empowermentarbeit und bestärkt sie darin, sich auf diese Fälle in ihren eigenen fachlichen Auseinandersetzungen zu berufen oder eigene Fälle der (strategischen) Prozessführung anzustreben. Quote: »Das Buch ist eine nicht nur nützliche sondern >empowernde Hilfe zumindest für alle jene, welche in diskriminierungssensiblen Kontexten arbeiten und manchmal daran zweifeln, dass man sich gegen Diskriminierung erfolgreich wehren kann.« Prof. Dr. Eckart Riehle, socialnet, 2.4.2020

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Article 34 of the European Convention on Human Rights prescribes that individual applications must be directed against one of the Convention States. Consequently, private actors involved in proceedings against other private actors before domestic courts must complain about State (in)action in their application to the European Court of Human Rights. In other words, originally 'horizontal' conflicts must be 'verticalised' in order to be admissible. Although such verticalised cases make up a large portion of the Court's case law, the particular nature of these cases, as well as procedural issues that may arise in them, has not received much attention. To fill this gap, this book offers a detailed examination of verticalised cases coming before the Court. The characteristics of and the Court's approach to verticalised cases are explored by means of an in-depth analysis of four types of verticalised cases (cases related to one's surroundings; cases involving a conflict between the right to reputation and private life and the right to freedom of expression; family life cases; and employer-employee cases). On the basis of this analysis, it is argued that the Court's current approach to verticalised cases poses problems for private actors, Convention States and the Court itself. In presenting recommendations for the resolution of these problems, the book concludes with a proposal for a new approach to verticalised cases, consisting of a redesigned third-party intervention procedure.

Human rights --- Civil rights --- International human rights courts. --- European Court of Human Rights. --- Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms