Resumen de Christopher Roberts, Alternative Approaches to Human Rights:: The Disparate Historical Paths of the European, Inter-American and African Regional Human Rights Systems

P Sean Morris

• At present, in the global environment for human rights enforcement, there are three main regional centers of judicial enforcement that have captured the hearts and minds of activists, alleged victims of human rights abuses, and the global legal system responsible for their formation.1 These three judicial centers of human rights enforcement are located in Arusha, Tanzania, hosting the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights; San Jose, Costa Rica, hosting the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; and Strasbourg, France, hosting the European Court of Human Rights. Along with these three judicial centers of human rights enforcement are also micro-judicial bodies such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the African Commission on Human Rights and Peoples Rights. Together, they form a corpus of the regionalization of human rights enforcement. There are other regional human rights regimes in parts of Asia and the Middle East, but they are yet to draw the attention of scholarly work in sufficient volume.2