118 inmates interned in the Center when the court delivered the ruling that granted the petition of habeas corpus. It thus violated Article 25 of the American Convention, in relation to Article 1(1) thereof. That violation was compounded by the State’s failure to provide the special measures of protection to which the inmates were entitled as children. The list of those inmates is attached to the present Judgment and is part thereof. XII ARTICLE 26 OF THE AMERICAN CONVENTION IN RELATION TO ARTICLE 1(1) THEREOF (PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL RIGHTS) Pleadings of the Commission 252. The Commission did not allege violation of Article 26 of the American Convention. The Commission was of the view that: a) as the State contends, the representatives did not allege that the State violated Article 26 of the Convention or Articles XI, XII, XIII and XV of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man either in its original petition or throughout the approximately five years that the case was before the Commission. The Commission, therefore, never forwarded any such arguments of law to the State, nor were they debated in the Commission’s proceedings on the case; b) if the representatives’ pleading is a motion for the Court asserting a separate State violation of Article 26 of the American Convention, then it would not come under the present case, as the procedural opportunity to have filed that motion has already passed; and c) should the Court deem that the purpose of the invocation of Article 26 of the Convention and the other Articles cited from the American Declaration and from the Convention on the Rights of the Child is to guide the interpretation of Article 19 of the Convention, the Commission would have no objection. Pleadings of the representatives 253. Concerning Article 26 of the American Convention, the representatives asserted that: a) Article 26 of the Convention must be studied in relation to Article 19 thereof, Articles XI, XII, XIII and XV of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, and Articles 24, 28, 29 and 31 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; b) the State failed to comply with its obligation to ensure even the minimum enjoyment of these rights in the case of the juveniles interned in the Center, who were in a highly vulnerable situation;