human rights policy of the Organization of American States in Latin America
Subtitle: philanthropic endeavours or the exploitation of an ideal?
By: Klaas Dykman[n].
Publisher: Marcus Wiener Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Subjects: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.; Organization of American States.; Human rights -- Latin America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The institutional evolution of the Inter-American system of human rights; value: The development of the juridical position of human rights in the Inter-American system; value: An institution for the protection of human rights: the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; value: From an exclusively juridical organ to a highly political institution: the positions and activities of the IACHR; value: The "conscience of the hemisphere" versus the unconscious: the relations between the IACHR, the OAS organs, and the member states; value: The OAS human rights policy in the 1970s: between dictatorships, violence, and hemisphere policies; value: The human rights issue enters the OAS agenda: the Chilean case (1973-1976); value: The Carter Administration and the OAS human rights policy; value: The Carter Administration, Argentina, and the OAS (1977-1980); value: Political conflicts and civil wars in Central America; value: Redefining human rights: the Reagan Administration; value: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Central America during the 1980s; value: The Commission's realpolitik: the case of El Salvador (1980-1991); value: Philanthropic endeavors or the exploitation of an ideal?; value: An evaluation of the human rights policy of the Organization of American States.