Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System: A Manual on Presenting Claims

This book offers human rights practitioners and scholars a lens into strategies and arguments for the protection of economic, social and cultural rights before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, particularly through the regional system\u27s individual petitions process. It systematically compiles the regional bodies\u27 major statements on social rights from the 1960s through 1999, describes the system\u27s procedures, and offers strategic pathways and arguments for finding social rights protections solidly grounded in each of the regional system\u27s major human rights instruments. It also offers a model petition and provides strategic advice on framing claims, processing petitions, and enforcing decisions before the inter-American human rights bodies. Based on research completed in 1999, its review of the system\u27s jurisprudence and procedure is today grossly outdated, although instructive from an historical perspective. The author\u27s view of certain arguments has likewise changed with time and experience. For a more up-to-date review of the social rights jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (updated to 2011), see http://ssrn.com/abstract= 1810897. For a more up-to-date review of the social rights jurisprudence of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (updated to 2008), see http://ssrn.com/abstract= 1000275.https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/books/1017/thumbnail.jp