the nature of these rights and solely for the purpose of caring for the general welfare in a democratic society. 17 4. The 1965 Second Special Inter-American Conference then entrusted the OAS Council to update and complete the “Draft Convention on Human Rights” developed by the Inter-American Council of Jurists in 1959, taking into consideration the drafts submitted by Chile and Uruguay and the position of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. It also entrusted the OAS Council to submit the draft to the governments so they could provide any observations they considered relevant and to convene an Inter-American Specialized Conference to examine the draft and the observations submitted, and to approve the Convention. 5. The OAS Council asked the Inter-American Commission for its views, and the Commission issued an opinion to the Council. 18 The Inter-American Commission reacted to the discussion on economic, social and cultural rights in its second opinion, as follows: The Commission believes that, initially, the Convention should contemplate only those rights and freedoms in regard to which the American states are now in a position to extend international protection which goes beyond the limits of their domestic competence. In examining the chapter on economic, social and cultural rights in the IACJ draft and in those presented by the Uruguayan and Chilean governments, the Commission had serious doubts as to the appropriateness of including those rights in the present convention, since, in the light of the experience of the Council of Europe and the United Nations, it considered that those rights, because of their nature, should be covered by a special system of international protection. 19 The Inter-American Commission added: However, the Commission believes that in view of the importance of the economic, social and cultural rights, the future Inter-American Convention on Human Rights should contain provisions by which the States Parties to the Convention will acknowledge the need to incorporate gradually into their domestic legislation such measures as are required to fully implement those rights. 20 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. 21 6. The Commission therefore suggested that the articles on economic, social and cultural rights proposed in the draft by the Inter-American Council of Jurists be reformulated. It proposed the following text: 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 Contracting States 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. 17 Cf. Draft Convention on Human Rights submitted by the Government of Uruguay to the Second Special Inter-American Conference, Río de Janeiro, 1965, Doc. 49, in: Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights, 1968, OAS, Washington D.C., 1973, pg. 303. 18 The first part of the report was submitted on November 4, 1966, and the second, on April 10, 1967. 19 Cf. Opinion of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the draft Convention on Human Rights approved by the Inter-American Council of Jurists, Part II, OAS/Ser.L/V/II.16/doc.8, in: InterAmerican Yearbook on Human Rights, 1968, OAS, Washington D.C., 1973, pg. 335. 20 Emphasis added. 21 Cf. Opinion of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the draft Convention on Human Rights approved by the Inter-American Council of Jurists, Part II, OAS/Ser.L/V/II.16/doc.8, in: InterAmerican Yearbook on Human Rights, 1968, OAS, Washington D.C., 1973, pg. 335.