European Regional Human Rights System versus the Inter-American and African Systems – Implementing the Notion of Universalism or Autonomy of Systemic Solutions

Abstract

Article was devoted to the issues of the formation of three regional human rights protection systems: European, Inter-American and African. It presents two major groups of issues. The first is the historical perspective of establishment of a regional European system of human rights protection systems (Inter-American and African) largely modeled on European solutions. The second group is a brief analysis of the solutions adopted on the basis of these systems. It consists of a catalog of rights protected, and procedural solutions of supervisory mechanism which determines the degree of efficiency of protection of human rights in different regional systems. This analysis seeks to determine the extent to which these systems are similar to each other and whether they are similar enough that we can speak of implementation of the idea of universalism. In addition, it discusses autonomous solutions adopted on the basis of these systems and for reasons arising from the specific local conditions for which they were introduced captures the differences in these three regional systems of human rights protection.