Week 7: International Human Rights
International Human Rights: Latin American delegations and social rights
What was the contribution of Latin American delegates to the development of the international human rights system? How did the international human rights system affect Latin America? What was the relationship between Latin America and the US? How did the Inter-American system develop?
Primary Sources:
The American Journal of International Law Vol. 40, No. 3, Supplement: Official Documents (Jul., 1946), pp. 93-116
1938 OAS Declaration in defense of human rights
UN Charter 1945.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948.
Core Readings:
Glendon, Mary Ann. 'Harvard Human Rights Journal 16 (2003), 27-39.
OR
Sikkink, Kathryn. "" Sur International Journal on Human Rights 12.22 (2015): 207-19.
AND
Juan Pablo Scarfi and Andrew Tillman (eds.) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. (Tanya Harmer and Mark Jeffrey Peterson's Chapters).
For an idea of how the Interamerican System has been used 'from below' read this if you like.
Pegram, Tom and Nataly Herrera Rodriguez. 鈥淏ridging the Gap: National Human Rights Institutions and the Inter-American Human Rights System.鈥� In Par Engstrom (ed.)
For a perspective that looks back to the nineteenth century have a look at this if you like.
Third World Quarterly. 27:5 2006, Vol. 27 Issue 5, 815-832.
Primary Source Activity
Look at the following source:
The American Journal of International Law Vol. 40, No. 3, Supplement: Official Documents (Jul., 1946), pp. 93-116
1. Choose an article or a couple of articles that speak to your interests and what you think have been important themes in Human Rights in Latin America. Read the articles. How might you use the article in an essay about the role of Latin American states and citizens in international Human Rights and internationalism?
2. What does this source tell you and what doesn't it tell you? What other sources, or kinds of sources might you want to look for to compliment this one? How might you find them?
Further Reading:
Engstrom, Par. 2016. 鈥淭he Inter-American Human Rights System and U.S.-Latin American Relations.鈥� In Cooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations: Revisiting the Western Hemisphere Idea, eds., Juan Pablo Scarfi and Andrew Tillman, 209-247. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Par Engstrom (ed.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Juan Pablo Scarfi and Andrew Tillman (eds.) Cooperation and Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations: Revisiting the Western Hemisphere Idea. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Cabranes, Jos茅 A. 1967. 鈥淗uman Rights and Non-Intervention in the Inter-American System.鈥� Michigan Law Review 65(6): 1147-1182.
Cooper, Andrew F. and Thomas Legler. 2006. Intervention without Intervening?: The OAS Defense and Promotion of Democracy in the Americas. Springer.
Cooper, Andrew F. and Thomas Legler. 2001. 鈥淭he OAS Democratic Solidarity Paradigm: Questions of Collective and National Leadership.鈥� Latin American Politics and Society 43(1): 103-26
Scarfi, Juan Pablo. 2017. The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas: Empire and Legal Networks. New York: Oxford University Press. ()
Greg Grandin, 鈥楬uman Rights and Empire's Embrace: A Latin American Counterpoint鈥� in Wasserstrom et al (eds.), Human Rights and Revolutions (Lantham, 2007), 191-212.
Michael George Hanchard. Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and S茫o Paulo, Brazil 1945-1988. Princeton University Press, 1994.
Mark Mazower, Princeton: 2009.
Philip Alston and Gerard Quinn, 鈥楾he Nature and Scope of States Parties' Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights鈥�, Human Rights Quarterly 9: 2 (1987), 156-229.
Winter, Jay, 鈥�1948: Human Rights鈥� in New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.