OEA/Ser.P AG/RES. 1833 (XXXI-O/01) 5 June 2001 Original: Spanish STUDY ON THE ACCESS OF PERSONS TO THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (Resolution adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 5, 2001;. subject to review by the Style Committee) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HAVING SEEN: The report of the Permanent Council on the evaluation and improvement of the inter-American system for the protection and promotion of human rights, presented in compliance with resolution AG/RES. 1701 (XXX-O/00) (CP/doc. /01); The Declaration and the Plan of Action of the Third Summit of the Americas, held in Canada in April 2001; The proposal of the Government of Costa Rica (CP/doc.3405/01) "Draft Optional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights" (AG/doc.629/01); The recent changes in the rules of procedure of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, regarding the access of persons to the inter-American human rights system; and CONSIDERING that the Heads of State and Government, in the Plan of Action of the Third Summit of the Americas, agreed to continue promoting concrete measures for strengthening and improving the inter-American human rights system, especially the functioning of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, recommending, among other things, facilitating the access of persons to the inter-American mechanism for the protection of human rights; and BEARING IN MIND that an intrinsic characteristic of international human rights law is that the person is subject of international law; and CONSIDERING that the dialogue on the strengthening of the inter-American human rights system made considerable progress in identifying areas that require further study, for the purpose of developing a solid and effective human rights system, the sole objective of which is to protect persons and safeguard their fundamental rights, RESOLVES: 1. To instruct the Permanent Council to initiate the study on the access of victims to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ius standi) and its application in practice. 2. To instruct the Permanent Council to take into account in its consideration of the study mentioned in the above paragraph, as one of the reference documents, the study conducted by the Government of Costa Rica (AG/CP/doc.629/01), as well as the recent changes in the rules of procedure of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Inter-American Court of Human Rights, regarding access of persons to the inter-American human rights system. 3. To request the Permanent Council to consider initiating discussion of this study, with the support of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and civil society, during the second semester of 2001, with a view to forwarding it, as soon as possible, to the States Parties to the American Convention on Human Rights, for consideration by the General Assembly at its thirty-second regular session. 4. To request the Permanent Council to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-second regular session on the implementation of this resolution.