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The American Convention on Human Rights, Cecilia Medina ; translated by Peter Krupa

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The American Convention on Human Rights

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Cecilia Medina ; translated by Peter Krupa

The inter-American convention of human rights' contains an in-depth analysis and comment on five basic rights protected under the Inter-American Convention of Human Rights in the light of the decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, namely the rights to life, to personal freedom, to personal integrity, to due process of law and to a judicial remedy. Violations of these basic rights formed the majority of complaints before the Court at a time when many of the contracting States had either just left, or were still immersed in a dictatorship. In addition to the analysis of the Inter-American Court's judgments on these rights, the European and the universal jurisprudence have also been taken into consideration; both the European Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations started their activities much earlier. For the analysis and interpretation of the five basic rights use has been made of the travaux préparatoires of the Inter-American Convention.--, Provided by publisher