Specialised section part of Ravel – Repository on the International Protection of Adults > International Human Rights legal instruments dealing with vulnerable adults > Regional Human Rights instruments

• Inter-American Convention on Human Rights
• Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities
• Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons

Inter-American Convention on Human Rights

• Adoption: 22 November 1969
• Official text in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese
• Status: updated number and list of States parties to the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights
• Bibliography
  • Francisco A Avalos, The Inter-American System of Human Rights: A Research Guide (2022).
  • Ilias Bantekas and Lutz Oette, International Human Rights Law and Practice (4th edition Cambridge University Press 2024), 276-287.
  • Andrea Broderick and Delia Ferri, International and European Disability Law and Policy. Text, cases and materials (Cambridge University Press 2019).
  • Hugo Caminos, ‘The Inter-American system for the protection of human rights’ in Janusz Symonides (ed), Human Rights: International Protection, Monitoring, Enforcement (Routledge-UNESCO Publishing 2003), 165-211. 🔒
  • Ariel Dulitzky, ‘The Inter-American Human Rights System Fifty Years Later: Time for Changes‘ [2011] Quebec Journal of International Law (Special Edition) 127-164.
  • Robert K Goldman, ‘History and Action: The Inter-American Human Rights System and the Role of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights‘ [2009] 31(4) Human Rights Quarterly ) 856-887.
  • David J Harris and Stephen Livingstone (eds), The Inter-American System of Human Rights (Oxford University Press 1998).
  • Cecilia Medina, ‘The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Reflections on a Joint Venture‘ [1990] 12(4) Human Rights Quarterly 439-464.
  • Lisa J. Reinsberg and oth., Advocacy before the Inter-American System. A Manual for Attorneys and Advocates (IJRC 2014).
  • Christopher Roberts, Alternative Approaches to Human Rights. The Disparate Historical Path of the European, Inter-American and African Regional Human Rights Systems (Cambridge University Press 2023). 🔒
  • Clara Sandoval, ‘The Inter-American System and Approach’ in Scott Sheeran and Nigel Rodley (eds), Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law (Routledge 2013), 427-443. 🔒
• Useful websites
  • Inter-American Commission on Human Rights website
  • Organization of American States website
  • Organization of American States – Department of International Law website
  • https://ijrcenter.org/regional/inter-american-system/

Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities

• Adoption: 8 June 1999
• Official text in English and Spanish
• Status: updated number and list of States parties to the Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities
• Bibliography
  • Andrea Broderick and Delia Ferri, International and European Disability Law and Policy. Text, cases and materials (Cambridge University Press 2019).
  • Adriana Caballero Pérez and Andrés M Guzmán Rincón, ‘The Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights and Persons with Disabilities: challenges and perspectives beyond the non-discrimination rule‘ [2021] 18(2) Jurídicas 43-60.
  • Diana Guarnizo-Peralta, ‘Disability rights in the Inter-American System of Human Rights: An expansive and evolving protection’ [2018] 36(1) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 43-63. 🔒
  • María Alejandra Sticca, ‘Los derechos de las personas con discapacidad. Un tema prioritario en la labor de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos‘ [2020] 11(1) Revista de la Facultad 133-144.

Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons

• Adoption: 15 June 2015
• Official text in English and Spanish
• Status: updated number and list of States parties to the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons
• Bibliography
  • Francesco Seatzu, ‘Sulla Convenzione dell’Organizzazione degli Stati americani per la protezione delle persone anziane‘ [2015] 2015(31) Anuario Espagnol de Derecho Internacional 349-366.

Click on the image below to keep browsing Ravel