Access to Justice as a Guarantee of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Review of Standards Adopted by the Inter-American System of Human Rights

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has prepared this review in order to highlight and systematize the case law of the inter-American system of human rights on four core issues that it has regarded as priorities for the judicial protection of economic, social and cultural rights: 1) the obligation to remove economic obstacles to ensure access to the courts; 2) the components of due process of law in administrative proceedings concerning social rights; 3) the components of due process of law in judicial proceedings concerning social rights; and 4) the components of effective judicial protection of individual and collective social rights.