Human rights in the Americas: Progress, challenges and prospects

The preceding chapters have offered a range of deeply valuable insights into human rights in a region characterized by perplexing contradictions. The Americas are at once both the origin of the first international instrument of human rights and home to many key players in the international human rights system, but also a region that has suffered extended periods of horrific mass violence and other widespread abuses of rights. The region is one of enormous diversity and contrast, and one that has experienced rapid and fundamental change in recent decades.

الموضوعات ذات الصلة: Human Rights and Refugees