Human rights regimes in the Americas (United Nations University Press, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The human rights regime in the Americas : theory and reality - Mónica Serrano -- - Why the human rights regime in the Americas matters - Par Engstrom and Andrew Hurrell -- - Democracy, human rights and the United States : tradition and mutation - Tom Farer -- - Strengthening the protection of human rights in the Americas : a role for Canada? - Bernard Duhaime -- - Human rights and the state in Latin America - Ramesh Thakur and Jorge Heine -- - Human rights in context : Brazil - Fiona Macaulay -- - Human rights and democracy in Chile - Felipe González -- - Human rights in Cuba and the international system - Ana Covarrubias -- - Actors and processes in the generation of change in the human rights policy in Mexico - Alejandro Anaya Muñoz -- - Battling against the odds : human rights in hard times - José Miguel Vivanco and Daniel Wilkinson -- - Human rights in the Americas : progress, challenges and prospects - Nicholas Turner and Vesselin Popovski
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