Author: Cristina Rossi

The effectiveness perceived by citizens regarding the Inter-American and European System of Human rights

In my opinion compare the two regional courts jurisprudence is a complicated task. Regional courts assume the difficult work of unifying basic principles of human rights for people of different Nations, cultures and languages. Southern and Western Europe and North America supported a different cultural and political history as well as current geopolitical considerations that greatly affect the context of the process of making decisions of each of the courts.

For people, a topic of great relevance for example, is in terms of sexual discrimination that defends both the Inter-American Commission on human rights and the European Court of human rights. Although the nature of the system creates the sensation that both cases appear from specific conflicts between individuals or entities, if one examines the jurisprudence as a whole, both at national and international level of sexual discrimination cases reveal endemic inequalities in gender affecting all areas of women's lives: marital and family relationships, Economic and employment opportunities, participation in political life, as well as their health and reproductive rights, just to mention some.

However, we can lead to a progressive interpretation of the procedural mechanisms, as it is the jurisdiction, to ensure wide access to the system for individuals and a large scope of the interpretative powers of the Court. If we consider the jurisprudence as a whole, the Inter-American Commission seems to use each case as an opportunity to set strong precedents that improve standards of human rights, while the European Court pa prays reluctant to take on that task. Finally I think that the ability of NGOs to actively commit to the Court and the Commission through public interest litigation remains crucial to the continuous improvement of international human rights standards.

Then carefully study the matter I came to the conclusion that there is a degree of knowledge regarding all the different rights and its violations, this it could note, for example, when we find new violations that infringe the rights of children and that until a few decades ago did not exist magnitudes as the now. Aside, racism is the center of all violations that if we analyze the relationship between violations of human rights we will obtain that terrorism is generally produced by racial, political and ethnic differences. Meanwhile, apartheid and violations to women and the indigenous begin from racist discrimination.

Then, after analyzing this work, I think that it would be very useful that campaigns for the knowledge of these two organisms are undertaken since it is necessary to gradually begin a massive process of consciousness to end chaos and form a homogeneous world in which all live as brothers.

Bibliography:

http://www.americanbar.org/publications/criminal_justice_section_archive/crimjust_standards_treatmentprisoners.html

http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/3/585.full