The American Convention on Human Rights, 3rd edition Crucial Rights and Their Theory and Practice

This third edition of the American Convention of Human Rights provides a thorough review of the protection of crucial convention rights and their application by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The book offers an engaging discussion of human rights issues, both old and new, occurring in the Americas.

Valeska David Contreras is a legal scholar and practitioner who works for the World Bank’s Latin America and the Caribbean Unit of the Social Inclusion and Sustainability Global Practice and is an affiliated researcher at the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University. Cecilia Medina Quiroga is Professor Emerita at the Universities of Chile and Diego Portales, who has lectured across the Americas and Europe. She was a member and chair of the UN Human Rights Committee and former judge and president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.