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Regional treaties - Americas »
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States American Convention on Human Rights, OAS, 1969 - 'Pact of San José'     ACHR      Recognition of the jurisdiction of the American Court on Human Rights.     ART. 62      Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, OAS 1988 - 'Protocol of San Salvador'     ADD PROT      back to introduction --»
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina It has accpeted the competence of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights to receive and examine communications in which a State Party alleges that another State Party has violated the human rights set forth in the American Convention.
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chile Accepted the competence of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights to receive and examine communications in which a State Party alleges that another State Party has violated the human rights set forth in the American Convention.
Colombia Accepted the competence of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights to receive and examine communications in which a State Party alleges that another State Party has violated the human rights set forth in the American Convention.
Costa Rica Accepted the competence of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights to receive and examine communications in which a State Party alleges that another State Party has violated the human rights set forth in the American Convention.
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republica
Ecuador Accepted the competence of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights to receive and examine communications in which a State Party alleges that another State Party has violated the human rights set forth in the American Convention.
El Salvador The ratification is understood without prejudice to those provisions of the Convention that might be in conflict with express precepts of the Political Constitution of the Republic. El Salvador recognizes the competence of the Court, in so far as this recognition is compatible with the provisions in the Constitution.
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica Accepted the competence of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights to receive and examine communications in which a State Party alleges that another State Party has violated the human rights set forth in the American Convention.
Mexico Reservation: Article 8 (right to a fair trial) shall be applied in the Mexican Republic in the ways and according to the procedures contemplated in applicable provisions of the Political Constitution of Mexico and its enabling provisions.
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru Accepted the competence of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights to receive and examine communications in which a State Party alleges that another State Party has violated the human rights set forth in the American Convention.
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vicent and the Grenadines
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago Denounced in 1998
United States of America
Uruguay Accepted the competence of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights to receive and examine communications in which a State Party alleges that another State Party has violated the human rights set forth in the American Convention.
Venezuela Accepted the competence of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights to receive and examine communications in which a State Party alleges that another State Party has violated the human rights set forth in the American Convention.