Abstract:
Regional systems for the protection of human rights have become an important part of the international system for the protection of human rights, and a rich source of jurisprudence on human rights issues, also on the domestic level. This note, in the form of a schematic exposition, attempts to make possible an easy comparison of the most salient features of the three systems in existence today. Except where otherwise indicated, it sets out the situation in respect of the European, Inter-American and African systems as it was in the first part of 2002.
