4.2 Inter-American System

The hemisphere's system: the American Convention on Human Rights 1969 (Pact of SanJose); the Inter-American Commission (the OAS organ — the petitions, the country reports, the precautionary measures) and the Inter-American Court (the contentious and advisory jurisdiction — the state-acceptance requirement); the jurisprudence's fame (the forced disappearances' line — the Velasquez Rodriguez case's seminal holding that state acquiescence in disappearances violates multiple rights; the amnesty's invalidation line — the Barrios Altos case; the indigenous-lands doctrine — the Awas Tingni case); the democratic-clause interface (the Inter- American Democratic Charter — the OAS course's cross-reference). The system's critics: the compliance gaps; the withdrawal episodes (the Trinidad, Venezuela and Dominican Republic exits' lore).