ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the regimes and assesses the contributions to the multilateral promotion and protection of human rights. Regional human rights regimes run the gamut from a system of authoritative judicial enforcement in Europe to barely nascent regimes in Asia and the Arab Middle East. The forty-seven-member Council of Europe operates a strong system of regional human rights enforcement. The Court also tries to serve as an active source of the progressive development of regional human rights law through its advisory opinions, twenty-six of which had been issued through May 2019. The African regional human rights regime is based on the 1981 African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. It includes the African Commission on Human Rights and African Court of Peoples’ and Human Rights. The African Court of Peoples’ and Human Rights sits in Arusha, Tanzania, and is composed of eleven judges who are elected by secret ballot from nominees put forth by member-states.
