to fully implement those rights. 14 The Commission also considers that consideration of the system for the international protection of the economic, social and cultural rights should begin as soon as possible. The Commission is prepared to begin examining this system of protection if the governments of the member states agree that it do so. 15 6. Consequently, the Inter-American Commission suggested a restatement of the articles related to economic, social, and cultural rights, as proposed by the draft of the Inter-American Council of Jurists. Thus, the following wording was proposed: Article 21. 1. The States Parties to this Convention recognize the need to adopt and, as appropriate, strengthen the guarantees to permit full protection of the other rights set forth in the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man which are not included in the preceding articles. 2. The States Parties also declare their intention of including and, as appropriate, maintaining and perfecting, in their domestic legislation, the provisions most conducive to the exercise of the right to employment and the fair and equitable remuneration of work, the establishment of humane working conditions; the protection of children, mothers, and families; as well as to the establishment of preventive and social-security measures that will ensure health, disability, and unemployment protection, the attainment of better living standards, and access to education and to the means for cultural improvement. Article 22. The States Parties shall report periodically to the Commission on Human Rights on the measures they have taken to achieve the purposes set forth in the preceding article. The Commission shall make appropriate recommendations and, when such measures have been widely accepted, shall promote the conclusion of a special convention, or additional protocols to this Convention, in order to include them in this Convention or in such other instrument as considered appropriate. 16 7. On June 12, 1968, the OAS Council adopted a resolution in which it requested that the Inter-American Commission develop a definitive working document on the draft Convention, which the Commission then translated into a "Preliminary Draft of Inter-American Convention on the Protection of Human Rights." This document was approved and adopted in the context of the InterAmerican Specialized Conference. 17 8. The Inter-American Specialized Conference on Human Rights, held from November 7 to 22, 1969, in San José, Costa Rica, was then convened to evaluate the draft. 18 The regulation on economic, social, and cultural rights was as follows: Article 25. 1. The States Parties to this Convention recognize the need to devote their best efforts to ensure that the other rights set forth in the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man and not included in the preceding articles are adopted and, as the case may be, guaranteed in their domestic law. 2. The States Parties further express their intention to enshrine and, where appropriate, to maintain and improve, within their domestic legislation, such prescriptions as are most suitable for: substantial and self-sustaining increase in the national product per capita; equitable distribution of national income; adequate and equitable taxation systems; modernization of rural life and reforms leading to equitable and effective land tenure regimes, increased agricultural productivity, expansion of land use, diversification of production and improved systems for the industrialization and marketing of agricultural products; and strengthening and expanding the means to achieve these ends; accelerated and diversified industrialization, especially of capital and intermediate goods; stability of the level of domestic prices in harmony Emphasis added. Cf. Opinion of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding the Draft Convention on Human Rights approved by the Inter-American Council of Jurists, Part Two, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.16/doc.8, in: Inter-American Yearbook of Human Rights, 1968, OAS, Washington D.C., 1973, pp. 334-335. 16 Cf. Opinion of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding the Draft Convention on Human Rights approved by the Inter-American Council of Jurists, Part Two, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.16/doc.8, in: Inter-American Yearbook of Human Rights, 1968, OAS, Washington, D.C., 1973, p. 336. 17 Cf. OAS Council Resolution, October 2, 1968. 18 Cf. Inter-American Specialized Conference on Human Rights, Proceedings and Documents, OEA/Ser.K/XVI/1.2, pp. 1-3. 14 15 5