-8present to the Commission a copy of the reports they send to other international bodies, agencies or organizations in relation to respect for these rights. Article 26. (i) The Commission may call the attention of the international cooperation or technical assistance agencies or any other relevant international body to any matter that arises from the reports referred to in the preceding articles of this Convention that may assist the said bodies when ruling, each one within its own terms of reference, on the desirability of adopting international measures capable of contributing to the progressive application of this Convention. (ii) The Commission shall ask the said bodies to forward the result of the reviews they carry out, as well as the measures they adopt on their own initiative based on those reports. Article 27. The Commission shall consider the reports received from the States, from national and international entities, and from individuals or groups of individuals and, if it finds it desirable, may publish the reports it receives, as well as the measures it has adopted or the requests sent to other entities, in order to allow national and international public opinion to assess the situation. Observations of Brazil13 Article 25. The text of the draft should be substituted as follows: 1. The States Parties to this Convention undertake to incorporate progressively into their domestic law: a) the rights included in the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man that have not been included among the rights defined in the preceding articles; b) the rights and benefits contained in the economic and social norms, and on education, science and culture established in Articles 31, 43 and 47 of the Charter of the Organization of American States established by the Protocol of Buenos Aires. 2. The law may exclude public services and essential activities from the right to strike. Justification Civil and political rights require an effective jurisdictional protection, at both the domestic and the international level, against violations perpetrated by the organs of the State or their representatives. To the contrary, economic, social and cultural rights are included in very diverse ways and to different degrees by the laws of the different States of the Americas, and although the Governments wish to recognize all of them, their exercise depends, above all, on the availability of material resources that permit their implementation. Article 25 of the draft is inspired by this concept, but its text does not correspond to its intention. The wording of paragraph 1 is imprecise, and limited to a statement of intention. Meanwhile, paragraph 2, by reproducing the content of Article 31 of the Protocol of Buenos Aires, forgot the right to strike, which is already established, with certain limitations, by the domestic law of the States of the Americas, as are the norms on education, science and culture established in Article 47 of that Protocol. The purpose of the amendment is to give economic, social and cultural rights the maximum protection compatible with the specific conditions in most of the States of the Americas. 20. Following discussions, during which some of the preceding positions were repeated without reaching a consensus, and during which it was never proposed to include economic, social and cultural rights under the protection system established for civil and political rights, a chapter was drafted with two articles. The first one was the same as Article 26 included in the final text of the Convention, while the second one established a limited and indirect 13 Proceedings of the Inter-American Specialized Conference on Human Rights, November 7 to 22, 1969, OEA/Ser.K/XVI/1.2, pp. 124 and 125.

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