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The Inter-American System’s recent contributions to the development of women’s human rights standards

Résumé This article seeks to provide an overview of some of the Inter-American Human Rights System's contributions to the development of... en savoir plus →

Indigenous peoples’ rights and the multicultural approach: for a twin-track dialogue between Canada and the Inter-American Human Rights System

Résumé This article addresses the importance of a twin-track dialogue between Canada and the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS), particularly with... en savoir plus →

Somos americanos? The potential of the Inter-American Human Rights System for Indigenous justice in Canada

Résumé This paper explores how Canada’s full commitment to the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAS) could provide a further recourse for... en savoir plus →

Monitoring human rights: the experience of the UPR Brazil Coalition

Résumé This article explores the creation of the UPR Brazil Coalition, a civil society network that monitors human rights using the... en savoir plus →

Amnesty in El Salvador: the long and winding road to justice, truth, and memory

Résumé Using the lens of memory and the figure of the memory entrepreneur, this article traces the struggle between Salvadoran actors... en savoir plus →

Indigenous women leading the defense of human rights from abuses related to mega-projects: impacting corporate behaviour — overcoming silencing practices

Résumé In the face of extreme violence, some Indigenous women-led social movement organizations that defend human rights in the context of... en savoir plus →

The Institutional Design of CUSMA: Improvement or Reversal vis à vis NAFTA?

Résumé In this article we comparatively analyze the institutional design of the 2020 Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) vis-à-vis the 1994 North American... en savoir plus →

Sub-Federal Deliberative Exclusions and Free Trade: Mexico’s Centralized Federalism and Weak Institutional Capacities

Résumé This article explores the relationship between trade and sub-federal deliberative exclusions in the case of Mexico. Mexican centralized federalism explains the... en savoir plus →

Requiem for Universal Jurisdiction in Spain

Résumé The two relevant legislative reforms that universal jurisdiction was subjected to have been a serious blow to the fight against impunity in Spain. The reasons for this de facto... en savoir plus →

Calling for Compliance. Transnational Advocacy Networks in the Mediterranean Sea. A Case Study on Norm Compliance at Europe’s Liquid Borders

Résumé The paper observes compliance theories on transnational advocacy networks in the Mediterranean Sea; a multinational border region being widely considered as the “deadliest border” in the world. This situation... en savoir plus →

The Cynic’s Guide to Compliance: A Constructivist Theory of the Contestation Threshold in Human Rights

Résumé Wherever the reader may sit on the spectrum of international relations theories, it should hold that whether a state complies with international human rights norms or not translates some... en savoir plus →

Are African States Willing to Ratify and Commit to Human Rights Treaties? The Example of the Maputo Protocol

Résumé This paper sheds light on factors affecting the ratification and commitment of African countries to treaties, to change and to improve their conduct according to the obligations present in... en savoir plus →

Compliance without Ratification. Using International Law in Non-Binding Scenarios

Résumé While the end goal of international treaties is full participation, states are often resistant to ratification. As such, it is worthwhile to examine the effects that international law, including... en savoir plus →

The Non-Ratification of the 1951 Convention on Refugees: An Indian Paradoxical Approach to Human Rights

Résumé The following paper explores the position of India on refugees and its resistance to signing the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. It first revisits the colonial... en savoir plus →

Strategies for Compliance with Non-Binding International Decisions: The Spanish Case

Résumé The Spanish State is among the countries with high standards of compliance with its international obligations on human rights. Regardless of the reasons that explain the respect for such... en savoir plus →

Socialization Trouble. European Populist States and Compliance with Human Rights Norms

Résumé This paper aims to reconceptualize the theoretical frameworks that underpin paradigms of the theory of socialization in international and European law. The somewhat carefree optimist approach to the compliance... en savoir plus →

Compliance of Territorially Fragile States with International Human Rights Law

Résumé Fragile States are defined as states incapable of fully implementing their international obligations in a part of the territory falling under their jurisdiction. The fragile State's compliance with its... en savoir plus →