American Convention on Human Rights.
Contributors: Inter-American Bar Foundation.; Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.; Universidad de Costa Rica. Facultad de Derecho.
Publisher: Inter-American Bar Foundation
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Washington, D.C. (1819 H St., N.W., Washington 20006)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Civil rights -- America -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Papers presented at a symposium sponsored by the Inter-American Bar Foundation, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the School of Law of the Costa Rican National University.
Table of contents: value: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights / Carlos Alberto Dunshee de Abranches; value: Rights protected by the American Convention on Human Rights / Marco Gerardo Monroy Cabra; value: The observance of human rights and the structure of the system for their protection in the Western hemisphere / Carlos García Bauer; value: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights / Fernando Volio Jiménez; value: Some of the problems presented by the application and interpretation of the American Convention on Human Rights / Edmundo Vargas Carreño; value: The American and European Conventions on Human Rights / Thomas Buergenthal; value: Coordination of the mechanisms in the American Convention with respect to those established by the system of the United Nations / Rodolfo Piza Escalante; value: Conflicts between domestic and international law / Carlos José Gutiérrez.