91 establishes for those who, because of their physical and emotional development, require special protection.151 148. As it examines this case, this Court will take this factor into particular account and will decide the question of the alleged violations of other Convention-protected rights in light of the added obligations that Article 19 impose upon the State. To establish the content and scope of this article, the Court will take into consideration the pertinent provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Paraguay ratified on September 25, 1990 and that entered into force on September 2, 1990, and the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Protocol of San Salvador), which Paraguay ratified on June 3, 1997 and which entered into force on November 16, 1999. These instruments and the American Convention are part of a very comprehensive international corpus juris for the protection of children that the Court must honor.152 149. The examination of the State’s possible failure to comply with its obligations under Article 19 of the American Convention should take into account that the measures of which this provision speaks go well beyond the sphere of strictly civil and political rights. The measures that the State must undertake, particularly given the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, encompass economic, social and cultural aspects that pertain, first and foremost, to the children’s right to life and right to humane treatment. 150. Therefore, in the instant case the Court will not rule on the possible violation of Article 19 of the American Convention separately; instead, it will include its decision on the Article 19 violation in the chapters pertaining to the other rights whose violation has been alleged. * * * 151. This Court has held that all persons detained have the right to live in prison conditions that are in keeping with their dignity as human beings and that the State must guarantee their right to life and their right to humane treatment.153 152. The State has a special role to play as guarantor of the rights of those deprived of their freedom, as the prison authorities exercise heavy control or command over the persons in their custody.154 So there is a special relationship and 151 Cf. Juridical Condition and Human Rights of the Child, supra note 150, para. 54; and Case of the Gómez Paquiyauri Brothers, supra note 26, para. 164. 152 Cf. Case of the Gómez Paquiyauri Brothers, supra note 26, para. 166; Case of the “Street Children” (Villagrán Morales et al.). Judgment of November 19, 1999. Series C No. 63, para. 194; and Juridical Condition and Human Rights of the Child, supra note 150, para. 24. 153 Cf. Case of Bulacio, supra note 56, paragraphs 126 and 138; Case of Hilaire. Judgment of June 21, 2002. Series C No. 94, para. 165; and Case of Cantoral-Benavides. Judgment of August 18, 2000. Series C No. 69, para. 87. 154 Cf. Case of the Gómez Paquiyauri Brothers, supra note 26, para. 98; Case of Juan Humberto Sánchez. Judgment of June 7, 2003. Series C No. 99, para. 111; and Case of Bulacio, supra note 56, para. 138. See also, Matter of Urso Branco Prison, supra note 54, sixth paragraph under ‘Considering”; and Matter of the Gómez Paquiyauri Brothers. Provisional Measures. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of May 7, 2004, thirteenth paragraph under ‘Considering’.