He is National Director of the European Masters Degree in Human Rights and Democratization organized by 40 European Universities in the framework of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC, Venice, Italy). Spanish representative to the UN Working Group for the elaboration of an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (UN, 1998 and 1999). He has been Visiting Professor in several European and Latin American Universities. His publications include El derecho al desarrollo como derecho humano en el ámbito jurídico internacional (The Right to development in Public International Law, 1999), Privatisation and Human Rights in the Age of Globalisation, 2005 (co-edited with Koen de Feyter), El derecho a la memoria (The Right to Memory, 2006, Director), Colombia en su laberinto: una Mirada al conflicto (Colombia in its Labyrinth: An Approach to the Conflict, 2008, Director) or International Human Rights Law in a Global Context (2009, co-edited with Koen de Feyter).
THE INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Course description
The Organisation of American States (OAS) is an international organization created in 1948 that has helped to open effective avenues for the consolidation of democracy, the rule of law and human rights in the Americas. A creation of the OAS, the so-called Inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human rights is one of the three major regional systems today, along with the systems sponsored by the Council of Europe (CoE) and the African Union (AU). Over the last decades, the Inter-American system has evolved considerably both from a normative and from an institutional perspective. The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (1959, Washington, DC.) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (1979, San José de Costa Rica) form the institutional architecture of the Inter-American system.
Schedule
Class 347.
27 March
10:40 - 12:00 - lecture
12:20 - 13:40 - lecture
28 March
10:40 - 12:00 - workshop
12:20 - 13:40 - lecture
29 March
10:40 - 12:00 - workshop
