Chapter 1: Introduction: Rethinking the Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System
Par Engstrom
Chapter 2: Mobilising the Inter-American Human Rights System: Regional Litigation and Domestic Human Rights Impact in Latin America
Par Engstrom and Peter Low
Chapter 3: Friendly Settlements in the Inter-American Human Rights System: Efficiency, Effectiveness and Scope
Natalia Saltalamacchia Ziccardi, Jimena Álvarez Martinez, Brianda Romero Castelán, and María José Urzúa Valverde
Chapter 4: The Impact of Precautionary Measures on Persons Deprived of Liberty in the Americas
Clara Burbano-Herrera
Chapter 5: From Compliance to Engagement: Assessing the Impact of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Constitutional Law in Latin America
Marcelo Torelly
Chapter 6: Institutional Empowerment and Progressive Policy Reforms: The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System on Intra-State Conflicts
Oscar Parra-Vera
Chapter 7: Bridging the Gap: National Human Rights Institutions and the Inter-American Human Rights System
Tom Pegram with Nataly Herrera Rodriguez
Chapter 8: Transnational Activism and Coalitions of Domestic Interest Groups: Reflections on the Case of Brazil
Rossana Rocha Reis
Chapter 9: Transitional Justice and the Inter-American Human Rights System in Peru: The Role of Anti- and Pro-Compliance Constituencies
Bruno Boti Bernardi
Chapter 10: Impact of the IAHRS in the Fight against Impunity for Past Crimes in El Salvador and Guatemala
Elena Martínez Barahona and Martha Gutiérrez
Chapter 11: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Effects of Overlapping Institutions: A Preliminary Study
Courtney Hillebrecht
Chapter 12: Impact in the African and Inter-American Human Rights Systems: A Perspective on the Possibilities and Challenges of Cross-Regional Comparison
Frans Viljoen
Par Engstrom is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at the Institute of the Americas, University College, UK, and the academic coordinator of the International Network on the Inter-American Human Rights System.
This book critically examines the impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS). Going beyond traditional state compliance models of human rights impact, it develops a contextual understanding of how the IAHRS shapes political struggles between actors and institutions seeking to advance the realization of human rights and those who resist such social and political change.
Par Engstrom is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at the Institute of the Americas, University College, UK, and the academic coordinator of the International Network on the Inter-American Human Rights System.