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The essays selected for this volume examine the structure and functioning of the principal regional human rights systems in the world today. These systems guarantee primarily civil and political rights, although not all governments and parties to these regional treaties are democracies. These articles trace the history of these systems.

The essays selected for this volume encompass the development of human rights law from its philosophical underpinnings and address many of its current controversies. The introductory essay provides a roadmap of the collection's major themes and traces the relationship between those themes. Taken together.

This volume identifies and contributes to the mainstream challenges within international human rights law, such as transitional justice, non-state actors, terrorism and development, as well as to the wider and more systematic range of challenges such as justiciability of social and economic rights, extraterritoriality.

The principles of equality and non-discrimination lie at the heart of international human rights law. This volume contains selected works by leading authors on the subject of equality and non-discrimination under international law.

Over the past sixty years the regional human rights systems have surpassed the UN human rights bodies in affording protection to the victims of human rights violations. Most of these systems have courts that are empowered to issue legally binding judgments and reparations for violations of human rights, which states have been unwilling to accord the UN system. The essays selected for this volume examine the structure and functioning of the principal regional human rights systems in the world today: 1) the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, 2) the European Court of Human Rights, 3) the African Commission and Court of Human and PeoplesΓÇÖ Rights and 4) the ASEAN Intergovernmental Human Rights Commission. These systems guarantee primarily civil and political rights. Central to all four systems is the necessity of a democratic form of government to guarantee these rights, although not all governments, parties to these regional treaties, are democracies. These articles trace the history of these systems, in particular, the expansion of their membership to include almost all independent countries in the region, and their evolution towards recognition of a ''right to democracy''.