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Enforced Disappearance; and the “Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights” (CESCR) for the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
At a regional level, the European Court of Human Rights
(ECtHR) is competent to hear complaints referring to the
European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and
Fundamental Freedoms. The European Committee on Social
Rights (ESCR) is competent for collective complaints against
the States Parties to the Additional Protocol to the European
Social Charter Providing for a System of Collective Complaints
(“Additional Protocol of 1995”) and those who accepted the
collective complaint mechanism through a declaration under
Article D of the European Social Charter (revised). The ESCR is
competent to consider complaints only against those rights of
the European Social Charter by which the State Party has
undertaken to be bound. 689
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR),
established by the OAS Charter, 690 is competent 691 to consider
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See, Article 11, Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter
Providing for a System of Collective Complaints (AP-ESC); and Article
A (Part III), ESC(r).
690
Article 106, Charter of the Organisation of American States (OAS
Charter).
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See, Article 23, Rules of Procedure of the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights, approved by the Commission at its
137 th regular period of sessions, held from October 28 to November
13, 2009, and modified on September 2nd, 2011 and during the 147th
Regular Period of Sessions, held from 8 to 22 March 2013, for entry
into force on August 1st, 2013 (IACHR Rules of Procedure). Other
human rights treaties of IACHR competence are the Protocol to the
American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty,
the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, the
Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons,
and/or the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment
and Eradication of Violence Against Women “Convention of Belém do
Pará”.