Building Prevention to Protect: The Inter-American Human Rights System
The article explores the way that the Inter-American human rights system assumes the “responsibility to protect” in the context of serious violations of human rights that can be characterized as war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. The essay describes how the Inter-A...
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doaj-20502606647f45d5b2147d9633de3cde2020-11-24T21:54:35ZengUniversidad del RosarioACDI: Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional2027-11312145-44932017-03-0110026129410.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/acdi/a.53003380Building Prevention to Protect: The Inter-American Human Rights SystemCarlos Portales0Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón1flacso-ChileAmerican University, Washington College of LawThe article explores the way that the Inter-American human rights system assumes the “responsibility to protect” in the context of serious violations of human rights that can be characterized as war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. The essay describes how the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights have responded to such situations by using the ample powers granted to them by the OAS member states. The authors consider that these organs have been some of the most effective tools with which this region has confronted such situations by seeking system has contributed to building democratic regimes in the majority of the countries of the hemisphere. This has been crucial to avoiding serious violations of human rights such as those mentioned above, which would have required urgent international intervention to overcome.https://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/acdi/article/view/5300Responsibility to protectInter-American Human Rights SystemAmerican Convention on Human RightsInter-American Commission on Human RightsInter-American Court of Human Rights |
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Carlos Portales Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón Building Prevention to Protect: The Inter-American Human Rights System ACDI: Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional Responsibility to protect Inter-American Human Rights System American Convention on Human Rights Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
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Carlos Portales Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón |
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Building Prevention to Protect: The Inter-American Human Rights System |
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Building Prevention to Protect: The Inter-American Human Rights System |
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Building Prevention to Protect: The Inter-American Human Rights System |
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Building Prevention to Protect: The Inter-American Human Rights System |
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Building Prevention to Protect: The Inter-American Human Rights System |
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building prevention to protect: the inter-american human rights system |
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Universidad del Rosario |
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ACDI: Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional |
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2027-1131 2145-4493 |
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2017-03-01 |
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The article explores the way that the Inter-American human rights system assumes the “responsibility to protect” in the context of serious violations of human rights that can be characterized as war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. The essay describes how the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights have responded to such situations by using the ample powers granted to them by the OAS member states. The authors consider that these organs have been some of the most effective tools with which this region has confronted such situations by seeking system has contributed to building democratic regimes in the majority of the countries of the hemisphere. This has been crucial to avoiding serious violations of human rights such as those mentioned above, which would have required urgent international intervention to overcome. |
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Responsibility to protect Inter-American Human Rights System American Convention on Human Rights Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
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