Este reporte fue elaborado por Álvaro Paúl Díaz.
En el ultimo número de la revista Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, se publicó un
artículo de Oswaldo Ruiz-Chiriboga, fundador y administrador de este blog,
titulado “The American Convention and the Protocol of San Salvador: Two
Intertwined Treaties. Non-Enforceability of
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Inter-American System”. Este es el resumen del artículo:
This article discusses the direct enforceability of
economic, social, and cultural (ESC) rights in the Inter-American System, also
called ‘the direct approach’. It starts by presenting two apparent conflicts
between certain provisions of the American Convention on Human Rights (“the
Convention”) and the Protocol of San Salvador (“the Protocol”) related to the
ESC rights recognised in Article 26 of the Convention and the mechanisms of
protection of such rights. The author concludes that ESC rights were never
intended to be directly enforceable before the Inter-American System and
therefore the direct approach is not feasible, except for the right to
unionisation and the right to education, the only rights expressly conceived as
directly enforceable by the Protocol. The recent decision of the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights in Acevedo-Buendía et al. v. Peru is also studied. The
Court declared that it has contentious jurisdiction over alleged violations of
ESC rights, but it took no notice of the Protocol. This article stresses that
every interpretation on ESC rights in the Inter-American System must not ignore
the Protocol of San Salvador.