Bridging the Gap: National Human Rights Institutions and the Inter-American Human Rights System

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an independent human rights consultant. The authors are extremely grateful to all those who gave generously of their time during the course of this research project. We wish to thank in particular Fernando Castañeda for his valuable insights, as well as Par Engstrom, Peter Low, and Oscar Parra-Vera for extremely helpful comments. All errors remain ours alone.

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