Human Rights

Specific Objectives

In matters of Human Rights, the effectiveness of the exchange of jurisprudence among the countries of the region will be evaluated, as well as with the Interamerican Court of Human Rights, in order to determine if the instruments are being applied by the judges of the region in their respective sentences.

Agenda of the II Summit

• Application of norms of International Law and of the Jurisprudence of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights. Proposals:
  • Sentences must comply with the provisions contained in the instruments of human rights protection and in the jurisprudence of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights, for which the Courts must instruct, in a period no longer than six (6) months, the other magistrates and the instance judges and the superior court judges who will periodically send the instruments and the decisions of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights that are produced subsequently.
  • Judges must observe, in the procedures of the penal processes, what is provided for in the American Convention of Human Rights, in regard to periods and terms, to preserve the judicial guarantees in order to ensure the right to freedom and dignity of people submitted to a penal process. The Courts must instruct, in a period no longer than six (6) months, the other magistrates and the instance judges and the superior court judges, on this particular.

• Victims' Human Rights.

• Administration of Justice and Civil Safety.

Program

Third Plenary Session: Friday, March 26

Working Paper (In Spanish)

Transcription of the Third Plenary Session