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Much Ado About… ESCR. An Analysis of the Case ‘Gonzales Lluy et al. v. Ecuador’ at the Inter-American Human Rights Court

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  • Liliana Ronconi Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 12 (2016): Anuario de Derechos Humanos 2016
https://doi.org/10.5354/adh.v0i12.42745

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to retrace the line of argument deployed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in its ruling on the case ‘Gonzales Lluy et al. v. Ecuador’ on 1 September 2015, according to which, ‘the Inter-American Court of Human Rights uses the equality principle as its main argument in the application of the strict scrutiny test, overlooking the use of the nonregression principle as a potential argument’. I suggest that the decision of the Court rested primarily on the discriminatory treatment suffered by the claimant and her family, jeopardizing her life, bodily integrity, and her right to education. However, for many of us working on ESCR, the ruling was not comprehensive enough, as the Court avoided the enforcement of Article 26 of the American Convention of Human Rights (principle of progressive development and nonregression clause). The application and development of the standards contained in Article 26 of the Convention are, however, of great practical use to the countries in the region, as they offer interpretive guidelines for the enforceability of ESCR, and provide practical tools to evaluate their breach.

Keywords:

Social rights, education right, equality, IACHR

Author Biography

Liliana Ronconi, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abogada y Profesora en Ciencias Jurídicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) y Doctoranda en la misma universidad. Becaria de Doctorado CONICET. Investigadora adscripta al Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas “A. L. Gioja”, Facultad de Derecho, UBA. Profesora Adjunta Regular de “Derechos Humanos”, UNPAZ. Auxiliar Docente Derecho Constitucional, Facultad de Derecho, UBA.

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Ronconi, L. (2016). Much Ado About… ESCR. An Analysis of the Case ‘Gonzales Lluy et al. v. Ecuador’ at the Inter-American Human Rights Court. Anuario De Derechos Humanos, (12), 119–131. https://doi.org/10.5354/adh.v0i12.42745
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