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.
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.
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This book offers an outstanding and timely contribution to the study of the Inter-American Human Rights System. It reveals the broader and often underexplored dimensions of impact that shape law, policy, and human rights practice across the Americas. By addressing a range of topics and drawing on rich examples, the authors capture the dynamic interplay among international institutions, domestic actors, and civil society. A must-read for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to understand the evolving architecture of human rights in the region. -- Angelita Baeyens, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, USA
Contents
Preface vii
1 Introduction: Impact within the human rights framework 1
Yves Haeck and Clara Burbano-Herrera
PART I LAYING OUT THE IMPACT MODEL
2 Inter-American human rights experimentalism 13
Par Engström
3 Tools to understand the impact of human rights systems from a comparative
perspective 47
Sabrina Ragone and Laura Alessandra
Nocera
4 Impact through aesthetics: narrative, perception, and justice in the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights 73
René Urueña and Stephania Yate Cortes
5 A theoretical model for measuring the impact of urgent measures aimed at
protecting at-risk detainees in Latin America 95
Clara Burbano-Herrera, Yves Haeck and
Alberte Verwohlt Hansen
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
Oscar Parra Vera and Mónica
Trespalacios Leal
7 Behind the scenes of impact in the Yanomami case (198085): 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
Edited by Yves Haeck, Professor of International Human Rights Law and Director of the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University and Clara Burbano Herrera, Professor of International Human Rights Law, Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant IMPACTUM, and Director of the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University, Belgium
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