Cumplimiento e impacto de las sentencias de la Corte Interamericana y el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos. Transformando realidades.


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Este libro reúne las contribuciones presentadas en distintos seminarios organizados por el Instituto Max-Planck de Derecho Público Comparado y Derecho Internacional Público, en cooperación con la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, el Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y el Programa Estado de derecho de la Fundación Konrad Adenauer. La obra se desarrolla a partir de dos elementos comunes: la revisión del cumplimiento de las sentencias emitidas por el Tribunal Europeo y la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, así como el impacto generado por las medidas de reparación ordenadas. A partir de ello, se abordan las diferentes aproximaciones y fundamentos sobre las reparaciones, que son la sustancia del cumplimiento; las distintas modalidades de diálogo generado; los reportes nacionales sobre los mecanismos de cumplimiento de las sentencias; la sistematización de buenas prácticas; la identificación de algunos de los fenómenos que generan resistencias al cumplimiento de las sentencias, tanto de carácter político como judicial, así como las formas de solución de estas a través del diálogo horizontal y vertical. El libro está organizado en tres secciones: en la primera se aborda el marco conceptual; la segunda agrupa los estudios nacionales, tanto de Europa como de América Latina y, finalmente, en la tercera encontramos los estudios transversales sobre el impacto del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos y los estudios comparados. Se trata de un trabajo plural, producto de diversos enfoques que de manera complementaria se suman para mostrar distintas rutas e impactos de los sistemas regionales de protección de los derechos humanos, donde se encontrarán conceptos, perspectivas y novedosos análisis, para dejar en manos de las lectoras y los lectores un libro que apunta hacia el constitucionalismo transformador en América Latina, la eficacia de los derechos humanos y el fortalecimiento de la democracia.




The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System


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This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading scholars in international and constitutional law, social sciences, and international relations to present a systematic as well as critical analysis of the impact of the Inter-American System of Human Rights and the legal mechanisms that allow for that impact.




Research Handbook on Compliance in International Human Rights Law


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This comprehensive Research Handbook offers an in-depth examination of the most significant factors affecting compliance with international human rights law, which has emerged as one of the key problems in the efforts to promote effective protection of human rights. In particular, it examines the relationships between regional human rights courts and domestic actors and judiciaries.




The Right to Political Participation


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This book provides a comparative analysis of how judgments from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) affect political participation and electoral justice at the national level. Looking at specific countries, the work analyses the legal impact the implementation of the ECtHR and the IACtHR judgments has, with a specific focus on cases in which the regional court concerned uses the “democratic argument,” that is, an argument related to democracy and political rights. The reasoning is that, although democracy is a much wider concept, judgments concerning violations of political rights and electoral justice provide reliable indicators to assess the status and sustainability of democracy in a State. Moreover, the analysis of the violations of political rights and electoral justice allows an in-depth comparison between the two regional human rights systems. Mindful of the broader scope of the fall-out generated by the non-implementation of judgments, including in socio-economic terms, the book includes a section exploring how judgments issued by the ECtHR and the IACtHR affect voters’ participation in the countries under their jurisdiction. To this end, an original dataset including the 47 Member States of the Council of Europe and the 20 countries which recognised the adjudicatory jurisdiction of the IACtHR is built. Multidisciplinary in aim and scope of analysis, the book will be an invaluable resource for researchers, academics, and policy-makers working in the areas of constitutional law, international human rights law, and political economy.




On Human Rights


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For the lecture series, speakers of international reputation are invited to speak on a subject related to human rights. The public is charged to hear them, and the funds go to Amnesty International; but the content of the lectures is not to be construed as representing the views of that organization. Here, seven contributions discuss such subjects as the limits to natural law and the paradox of evil; majority rule and individual rights; crimes of war and peace; and human rights, rationality and sentimentality. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




Territory


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This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.




How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease


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This report considers the biological and behavioral mechanisms that may underlie the pathogenicity of tobacco smoke. Many Surgeon General's reports have considered research findings on mechanisms in assessing the biological plausibility of associations observed in epidemiologic studies. Mechanisms of disease are important because they may provide plausibility, which is one of the guideline criteria for assessing evidence on causation. This report specifically reviews the evidence on the potential mechanisms by which smoking causes diseases and considers whether a mechanism is likely to be operative in the production of human disease by tobacco smoke. This evidence is relevant to understanding how smoking causes disease, to identifying those who may be particularly susceptible, and to assessing the potential risks of tobacco products.




Employment in Metropolitan Areas


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International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management


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The understanding that some pesticides are more hazardous than others is well established. Recognition of this is reflected by the World Health Organization (WHO) Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard, which was first published in 1975. The document classifies pesticides in one of five hazard classes according to their acute toxicity. In 2002, the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) was introduced, which in addition to acute toxicity also provides classification of chemicals according to their chronic health hazards and environmental hazards.




World Anthropologies


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Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.