Ecuador will insist on IACHR reforms at the OAS appointment

From next week Ecuador will seize the general assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Asuncion, Paraguay, to insist on reforms to the Inter-American System on Human Rights (ISHR).

Ecuador will also add support for the proposition to change the base headquarters of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), in Washington, United States, to a country that itself has signed the American Convention on Human Rights, or the Pact of San José.

Correa’s government ensures that it is an “inconsistency” that the Commission works on a non-adherent state, which is why from 2011 he began a campaign to reform the international system.

The national position has been supported by Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Uruguay and Guatemala; and resilience from Mexico, Panama, Paraguay and Argentina.

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