18. A reasonable time is particularly important in this case since most of the victims are aged, more than 70 years old. This will be analyzed in the following section. IV. THE VULNERABILITY OF OLDER VICTIMS 19. It is relevant that the Court emphasized that the harm involved in the reasonable time had "a differentiated impact on the victims due to their age, as most of them were in their 80s or 90s and some of them had even died, more than 800 victims, […] whose right was never made effective.” The decision of February 12, 1992 has not been fully complied with, which has had a serious impact on the victims in that they are older persons who have not obtained the payments that they are owed. As was analyzed, the right to wages is related to its nutritional and survival nature. 20. The Court, therefore, refers to the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons, to which Peru is a party. 10 That Convention includes the obligation of the States to guarantee equality and non-discrimination (Article 3(d)), proper treatment and preferential care (Article 3(k)) and effective judicial protection (Article 3(n)). The Court also refers to the Brasilia Regulations regarding access to justice for vulnerable people, approved by the XIV Ibero-American Judicial Summit in 2008 and updated at the XIX Summit in 2018, which places older persons in the category of especially vulnerable people. 21. This special vulnerability requires expeditiousness in the judicial processes in which older persons are a party. Thus, Article 4 of the Inter-American Convention expressly establishes that the States undertake to “Adopt and strengthen such legislative, administrative, judicial, budgetary, and any other measures […], including adequate access to justice, in order to ensure a differentiated and preferential treatment for older persons in all areas.” Along the same line, Article 31 of that treaty states that "judicial action must be particularly expedited in instances where the health or life of the older person may be at risk.” 22. The "increased protection" has also been mentioned by the UN ESCER Committee in its General Comment No. 6 on "the economic, social and cultural rights of older persons,” by stating “[...] the States parties to the Covenant are obligated to to pay particular attention to promoting and protecting the economic, social and cultural rights of older persons.” 11 In that same General Comment, the Committee refers to the Vienna International Plan of Action on Ageing of the United Nations, 12 which reports that "in most areas of the world efforts of older persons to participate in work and economic activities which will satisfy their need to contribute to the life of the community and benefit society as a whole meet with difficulties. Age discrimination is prevalent: many older workers are unable to remain in the labour force or to re-enter it because of age discrimination. In some countries this situation tends to impact women more severely. The integration of the aged into the machinery of development affects both the rural and urban population groups." 23. The European Court of Human Rights has stressed the need for special diligence in processing cases in which the issue raised is urgent and has identified among those cases; for example, those that concern employment and pension disputes; 13 those that involve a petitioner with an incurable disease or a reduced life expectancy; 14 those in which the dispute 10 Peru deposited its instrument of accession to the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons on March 1, 2021. 11 Cf. UN, ESCR Committee, General Comment No. 6, (1995), para. 13. 12 UN, Vienna International Plan of Action on Ageing, 1982. 13 Cf. ECHR. Case of Borgese v. Italy, January 24, 1992, para. 18. 14 Cf. ECHR, Case of Konig v. Germany, June 28, 1978, para. 111 5

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