LA CONVENCIÓN AMERICANA SOBRE DERECHOS HUMANOS Y LAS OBLIGACIONES GENERALES DE LOS ARTÍCULOS 1 Y 2. EL CASO VENEZOLANO

This book is the text of the author's Doctoral Thesis, presented at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela, on the subject of The American Convention on Human Rights and the General Obligations of Articles 1 and 2: The Venezuela Case, These articles of the Convention provide: Article 1. Obligation to Respect Rights. The States Parties to this Convention undertake to respect the rights and freedoms recognized herein and to ensure to all persons subject to their jurisdiction the free and full exercise of those rights and freedoms, without any discrimination for reasons of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic status, birth, or any other social condition. 2. For the purposes of this Convention, "person" means every human being Article 2. Domestic Legal Effects. Where the exercise of any of the rights or freedoms referred to in Article 1 is not already ensured by legislative or other provisions, the States Parties undertake to adopt, in accordance with their constitutional processes and the provisions of this Convention, such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to those rights or freedoms.