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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 3d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 3. For the purposes of this article, the following do not constitute forced or compulsory labor:
d. work or service that forms part of normal civic obligations. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | For purposes of this Convention:
2. Indirect discrimination shall be taken to occur, in any realm of public and private life, when a seemingly neutral provision, criterion, or practice has the capacity to entail a particular disadvantage for persons belonging to a specific group, or puts them at a disadvantage, unless said provision, criterion, or practice has some reasonable and legitimate objective or justification under international human rights law. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | For purposes of this Convention:
3. Multiple or aggravated discrimination is any preference, distinction, exclusion, or restriction based simultaneously on two or more of the criteria set forth in Article 1.1, or others recognized in international instruments, the objective or result of which is to nullify or curtail, the equal recognition, enjoyment, or exercise of one or more human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the international instruments applicable to the States Parties, in any area of public or private life. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | THE STATES PARTIES TO THIS CONVENTION, | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. vii | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The states undertake to prevent, eliminate, prohibit, and punish, in accordance with their constitutional norms and the provisions of this Convention, all acts and manifestations of discrimination and intolerance, including:
vii. Any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference applied to persons, because of their status as victims of multiple or aggravated discrimination, the purpose or result of which is to deny or impair the equal recognition, enjoyment, exercise, or protection of rights and fundamental freedoms; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | AGREE upon the following: | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. ii | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The states undertake to prevent, eliminate, prohibit, and punish, in accordance with their constitutional norms and the provisions of this Convention, all acts and manifestations of discrimination and intolerance, including:
ii. Publication, circulation or dissemination, by any form and/or means of communication, including the Internet, of any materials that:
a. advocate, promote, or incite hatred, discrimination, and intolerance;
b. condone, justify, or defend acts that constitute or have constituted genocide or crimes against humanity as defined in international law, or promote or incite the commission of such acts; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties undertake to adopt legislation that clearly defines and prohibits discrimination and intolerance, applicable to all public authorities as well as to all individuals or natural and legal persons, both in the public and in the private sectors, particularly in the areas of employment; participation in professional organizations; education; training; housing; health; social protection; exercise of economic activity; access to public services and other areas; and to repeal or amend any legislation that constitutes or produces discrimination and intolerance. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | CONSIDERING that the individual and collective experience of discrimination and intolerance must be taken into account to combat segregation and marginalization based on gender; age; sexual orientation; language; religion; political or other opinion; social origin; economic status; migrant, refugee or dislocated status; birth, stigmatized infectious-contagious condition’, genetic trait; disability; debilitating psychological distress; or other social condition; as well as others recognized in international instruments; and to protect the life plan of individuals and communities at risk of such segregation and marginalization; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | REAFFIRMING the resolute commitment of the member states of the Organization of American States to the complete and unconditional eradication of all forms of discrimination and intolerance, and their conviction that such discriminatory attitudes are a negation of universal values and the inalienable and infrangible rights of the human person and the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the Organization of American States, the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, the American Convention on Human Rights, the Social Charter of the Americas, the Inter-American Democratic Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties undertake to adopt the special policies and affirmative actions needed to ensure the enjoyment or exercise of rights and fundamental freedoms of persons or groups that are subject to discrimination or intolerance for the purpose of promoting equitable conditions for equal opportunity, inclusion, and progress for such persons or groups. Such measures or policies shall not be considered discriminatory or incompatible with the purpose or intent of this Convention, shall not lead to maintaining separate rights for different groups, and shall not be continued beyond a reasonable period or after their objective has been achieved. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | This Convention shall remain in force indefinitely, but any State Party may denounce it through written notification addressed to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States. The Convention shall cease to have force and effect for the denouncing state one year after the date of deposit of the instrument of denunciation, and shall remain in force for the other States Parties. Such denunciation shall not exempt the State Party from the obligations imposed upon it under this Convention in respect of any action or omission prior to the date on which the denunciation takes effect. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 2013, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | CONVINCED that the principles of equality and non-discrimination among human persons are dynamic democratic concepts that foster the promotion of effective legal equality and presuppose an obligation on the State’s part to adopt special measures to protect the rights of individuals or groups that are victims of discrimination and intolerance, in any area of human endeavor, whether public or private, with a view to cultivating equitable conditions for equal opportunity and to combating discrimination and intolerance in all their individual, structural, and institutional manifestations; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Commission shall appear in all cases before the Court. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. Reasons shall be given for the judgment of the Court. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. At no time shall the judges of the Court or the members of the Commission be held liable for any decisions or opinions issued in the exercise of their functions. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Commission shall consider inadmissible any petition or communication submitted under Articles 44 or 45 if:
a. any of the requirements indicated in Article 46 has not been met; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 3. The Secretary General shall inform all member states of the Organization of the entry into force of the Convention. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The General Assembly may, only at the request of the Commission or the Court, as the case may be, determine sanctions to be applied against members of the Commission or judges of the Court when there are justifiable grounds for such action as set forth in the respective statutes. A vote of a two-thirds majority of the member states of the Organization shall be required for a decision in the case of members of the Commission and, in the case of judges of the Court, a two-thirds majority vote of the States Parties to the Convention shall also be required. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. The States Parties to the Convention undertake to comply with the judgment of the Court in any case to which they are parties. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The parties to the case shall be notified of the judgment of the Court and it shall be transmitted to the States Parties to the Convention. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The main function of the Commission shall be to promote respect for and defense of human rights. In the exercise of its mandate, it shall have the following functions and powers:
b. to make recommendations to the governments of the member states, when it considers such action advisable, for the adoption of progressive measures in favor of human rights within the framework of their domestic law and constitutional provisions as well as appropriate measures to further the observance of those rights; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. The report shall be transmitted to the states concerned, which shall not be at liberty to publish it. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. Only the States Parties and the Commission shall have the right to submit a case to the Court. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. If a judge is a national of any of the States Parties to a case submitted to the Court, he shall retain his right to hear that case. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. The States Parties to this Protocol agree that education should be directed towards the full development of the human personality and human dignity and should strengthen respect for human rights, ideological pluralism, fundamental freedoms, justice and peace. They further agree that education ought to enable everyone to participate effectively in a democratic and pluralistic society and achieve a decent existence and should foster understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations and all racial, ethnic or religious groups and promote activities for the maintenance of peace. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties to this Protocol recognize that the right to work to which the foregoing article refers presupposes that everyone shall enjoy that right under just, equitable, and satisfactory conditions, which the States Parties undertake to guarantee in their internal legislation, particularly with respect to: h. Rest, leisure and paid vacations as well as remuneration for national holidays. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind that, although fundamental economic, social and cultural rights have been recognized in earlier international instruments of both world and regional scope, it is essential that those rights be reaffirmed, developed, perfected and protected in order to consolidate in America, on the basis of full respect for the rights of the individual, the democratic representative form of government as well as the right of its peoples to development, self-determination, and the free disposal of their wealth and natural resources; and | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties to this Protocol recognize that the right to work to which the foregoing article refers presupposes that everyone shall enjoy that right under just, equitable, and satisfactory conditions, which the States Parties undertake to guarantee in their internal legislation, particularly with respect to: d. Stability of employment, subject to the nature of each industry and occupation and the causes for just separation. In cases of unjustified dismissal, the worker shall have the right to indemnity or to reinstatement on the job or any other benefits provided by domestic legislation; | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. The exercise of the rights set forth above may be subject only to restrictions established by law, provided that such restrictions are characteristic of a democratic society and necessary for safeguarding public order or for protecting public health or morals or the rights and freedoms of others. Members of the armed forces and the police and of other essential public services shall be subject to limitations and restrictions established by law. | Organization of American States | Regional treaty |
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