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that went on to submit many enquiries to Member States until, on June 12, 1968, the
OAS Council adopted a Resolution (OEA/Ser.G/IV/C-i-837 rev 3)14 requesting the
Inter-American Commission to prepare the complete and revised text of the draft
Convention, which held a Special Session of June 1 and 2, 1968. The Commission
referred the draft Convention to the OAS Council on July 18, 1968, which adopted the
draft Convention as the working document for the Specialized Inter-American
Conference on Human Rights, including the comments and amendments made by
Member States.15
14.
The “Draft Inter-American Convention on the Protection of Human Rights”
prepared by the Inter-American Commission went back from the text of the Uruguay
proposal and adopted the prior proposal made by the Inter-American Council of Jurists
and Chile. Indeed, Article 57 of the draft sets forth:
The judgment of the Court will be communicated to the Council of the
Organization of American States.16
III
The Inter-American Specialized Conference
on Human Rights of 1969
15.
Finally, it was during the Inter-American Specialized Conference on Human
Rights, held in San José, Costa Rica, from November 7 to November 22, 1969, that
the American Convention on Human Rights was signed and, consequently, the current
text —former article 57 of the draft document submitted by the Commission— was
approved as paragraph 69. It is at this very time that a new article was adopted, that
is current article 65 of the American Convention.
16.
In the official publication made by the OAS of the Minutes and Documents of
the Inter-American Specialized Conference on Human Rights,17 the report submitted
by the Rapporteur of the Second Committee, Robert J. Redington of the United States
of America on the “Protection Organs and General Provisions” is to be found. Its
relevant part reads as follows:
Article 66, a new article, establishes that the Court shall submit a report on its
work to the General Assembly of the OAS, at the annual meeting of the said
General Assembly, in compliance with Article 52 of the OAS Charter, as
amended by the Protocol of Buenos Aires. Besides, Article 66 provides that the
Court shall be able to include in the report those cases in which a State has not
complied with its judgments, and to make the recommendations it may deem
proper.
…
14
OAS Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights, 1968, page 92.
15
OEA/Ser.G/V/C-d-1631, in: OAS Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights, 1968, page 156; and
OEA/Ser.G/IV/C-i-871 rev. 3., in: OAS Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights, 1968, page 157.
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17
OAS Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights, 1968, page 150.
OAS “Minutes and Documents. Inter-American Specialized Conference on Human Rights”, San Jose, Costa
Rica, November 7-22, 1969, OAS/Ser.K/XVI/1.2.
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