Chapter 7 Web links

The Americas is the focus of this chapter and attention turns to the principal organization in the region with responsibility for human rights - the Organization of American States.

• The Organization of American States
• The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (partly in Spanish)
• The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• The Inter-American Council for Integral Development
• The Inter-American Commission of Women
• The OAS Permanent Council Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs working group on drafting the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• The Pan-American Development Foundation
• The text of the Charter of the Organization of American States which has implications for human rights, particularly in respect of the powers of the Commission
• The text of the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights
• The multimedia platform on which the audio-visual recordings of the Court’s public hearings are made available
• MERCOSUR (English language)
• Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)
• The Caribbean Court of Justice