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ABC of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 2020 7 WHAT ARE THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES ENSHRINED IN THE AMERICAN CONVENTION? The American Convention first establishes the obligation of States to respect the rights and liberties recognized in the Convention, as well as the duty to adopt dispositions of internal law that might be necessary to effectuate the enjoyment of such rights. Second, the Convention establishes the following rights and liberties: the right to juridical personality; the right to life; the right to humane treatment; freedom from slavery; the right to personal liberty; the right to a fair trial; freedom from ex post facto laws; the right to compensation; the right to privacy; freedom of conscience and religion; freedom of though and expression; the right of reply; the right of assembly; freedom of association; rights of the family; the right to a name; rights of the child; the right to nationality; the right to property; freedom of movement and residence; the right to participate in government; the right to equal protection; the right to judicial protection; and the progressive development of economic, social, and cultural rights. WHAT ARE THE ADDITIONAL PROTOCOLS TO THE AMERICAN CONVENTION? The Convention has two additional protocols. The first is the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, or “Protocol of San Salvador,” which was adopted on 17 November 1988 and entered into forced on 16 November 1999. The second, the Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty, was signed on 8 June 1990. WHAT IS THE INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS? The American States, in the exercise of their sovereignty and in the framework of the Organization of American States, adopted a series of international instruments that have become the foundation of a regional system of human rights promotion and protection, known as the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights. This System recognizes and defines the rights enshrined in those instruments, and establishes obligations with the purpose of promoting and protecting such rights. In addition, two organs were created through this System with the intention to safeguard those rights: The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The Inter-American System was formally started with the passing of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man in 1948. Additionally, the System includes other instruments, such as the American Convention on Human Rights; protocols and conventions on specialized themes, such as, among others, the Inter-American