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May 2021
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The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American ...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Ignacio de Casas, Austral University, Argentina, gives a seminar for the PIL discussion group. The terms ‘international human rights standards’ or ‘inter-American human rights standards’ are often used by the Inter-American human rights bodies as almost a synonym for human rights or the obligations that States have in this area. In their discourse, these ‘st ... Show More
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