Full Description
This book examines how international human rights systems impact real-world practice. International experts integrate human rights law, political science, and criminology to analyze how the decisions of human rights bodies shape laws, policies, and societies.
Combining theoretical analysis with case studies from various countries, the contributing authors provide an in-depth contextual understanding of the multifaceted impact of human rights systems, specifically the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS). They emphasize that the role of the IAHRS is increasingly vital in promoting justice, documenting human rights violations, and upholding international human rights standards. The book provides fresh insights into how human rights mechanisms function in practice and moves beyond state compliance to examine the extent of the broader legal and political impact of human rights systems.
Impact within the Human Rights Framework is an essential resource for students and academics in human rights law, political science, public international law, and international relations. It is also a beneficial read for practitioners in human rights organizations and policy institutions.
Contents
Contents
P�r�e�f�a�c�e� �vii
1 Introduction: Impact within the human rights framework 1
Y�v�e�s� �H�a�e�c�k� �a�n�d� �C�l�a�r�a� �B�u�r�b�a�n�o�-�H�e�r�r�e�r�a�
PART I LAYING OUT THE IMPACT MODEL
2 Inter-American human rights experimentalism 13
P�a�r� �E�n�g�s�t�r�öm�
3 Tools to understand the impact of human rights systems from a comparative perspective 47
S�a�b�r�i�n�a� �R�a�g�o�n�e� �a�n�d� �L�a�u�r�a� �A�l�e�s�s�a�n�d�r�a� �N�o�c�e�r�a�
4 Impact through aesthetics: narrative, perception, and justice in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 73
R�e�n�é �U�r�u�e�ña� �a�n�d� �S�t�e�p�h�a�n�i�a� �Y�a�t�e� �C�o�r�t�e�s�
5 A theoretical model for measuring the impact of urgent measures aimed at protecting at-risk detainees in Latin America 95
C�l�a�r�a� �B�u�r�b�a�n�o�-�H�e�r�r�e�r�a�,� �Y�v�e�s� �H�a�e�c�k� �a�n�d� �A�l�b�e�r�t�e� �V�e�r�w�o�h�l�t� �H�a�n�s�e�n�
PART II APPLYING THE IMPACT MODEL TO SPECIFIC CASES AND/OR COUNTRIES STUDIES
6 Impact of the Inter-American jurisprudence on the fight against impunity in Colombia: the case of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace 147
O�s�c�a�r� �P�a�r�r�a� �V�e�r�a� �a�n�d� �M�ón�i�c�a� �T�r�e�s�p�a�l�a�c�i�o�s� �L�e�a�l� �
7 Behind the scenes of impact in the Yanomami case (1980-85): civil society and bureaucratic politics in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 173
Bruno Boti Bernardi and João Roriz
8 Towards the consolidation of the Ius Constitutionale Commune in Latin American LGBTIQ+ rights: the transformative impact of Advisory Opinion OC-24/17 203
Mariela Morales Antoniazzi and Carolina Bejarano Martínez
9 Urgent measures and Indigenous peoples' territorial rights in the Inter-American system 241
Daniel Cerqueira
10 Concluding remarks: impact is a rich concept that encompasses a variety of dimensions 277
Clara Burbano Herrera and Yves Haeck
Index 285
