Publication details
Interamerický systém ochrany lidských práv: následovník Štrasburku nebo osobitý strážce základních práv na americkém kontinentu?
| Title in English | Inter-American System of Human Rights Protection: Follower of Strasbourg or Distinctive Guardian of Fundamental Rights on the American Continent? |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | COFOLA 2012: The Conference Proceedings. |
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| Web | http://www.law.muni.cz/sborniky/cofola2012/sbornik-cofola-2012.pdf |
| Field | Law sciences |
| Keywords | Inter-American System of Human Rights Protection; American Convention on Human Rights; Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; Inter-American Court of Human Rights. |
| Description | In 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted as a document that was not legally binding. Later the western European countries decided to create a regional system of human rights protection based on international treaty. The control mechanism of this groundbreaking system was composed by the European Commission of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. Subsequently analogous system came into being in America. Its legal basis is formed primarily by the American Convention on Human Rights from 1969. The control mechanism of this system consists of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Subject of this paper is the analysis of the system in order to specify how the norms of international law affect the national law and to find out, to what extent is the system inspired by the European model and to what extent it is a specific mechanism containing distinctive attributes that could inspire other regional systems of human rights protection. |