Building Prevention to Protect: The Inter-American Human Rights System

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/acdi/a.5300

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Published: Mar 1, 2017
Issue: Vol. 10 (2017): 10 Years Publishing
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Keywords: Responsibility to protect Inter-American Human Rights System American Convention on Human Rights Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Inter-American Court of Human Rights

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Authors

Carlos Portales
flacso-Chile
Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón
American University, Washington College of Law

Abstract

The article explores the way that the Inter-American human rights system assumes the “responsibility to protect” in the context of serious violations of human rights that can be characterized as war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. The essay describes  how the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights have responded to such situations by using the ample powers granted to them by the OAS member states. The authors consider that these organs have been some of the most effective tools with which this region has confronted such situations by seeking system has contributed to building democratic regimes in the majority of the countries of the hemisphere. This has been crucial to avoiding serious violations of human rights such as those mentioned above, which would have required urgent international intervention to overcome.

Author Biographies

Carlos Portales, flacso-Chile

Professor and Senior Researcher at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (flacso-Chile) in Santiago. He was Director of the Program on International Organizations, Law and Diplomacy at American University Washington College of Law.

Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, American University, Washington College of Law

Professorial Lecturer in Residence at American University
Washington College of Law and Co-Director of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the llm in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in that institution.

How to Cite
Portales, C., & Rodríguez-Pinzón, D. (2017). Building Prevention to Protect: The Inter-American Human Rights System. ACDI - Anuario Colombiano De Derecho Internacional, 10, 261–294. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/acdi/a.5300
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