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SANTANA PAISANO, Diana Cecilia. The Central American Integration System (SICA) and the protection of human rights. Relac. int. [online]. 2019, vol.28, n.57, pp.217-225. ISSN 2314-2766.

The commitments acquired by SICA with respect to the defense of Human Rights are recorded throughout its normative and institutional framework, which includes the founding treaties of Central American integration as well as the Esquipulas agreements (which raised a renewed vision of the integration model based on democracy and human security), the wide range of rights recognized by the inter-American system that confers jurisdiction to the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (Court HDI), and the universal order established by the United Nations Organization (UN). This has thus reinforced the commitments to affording protection and universal justice and it has also turned them into the basic principles to be invoked before the Central American Court of Justice (CACJ), because these principles are part of the Central American Community Law itself, despite limitations regarding the specific judicial powers of the CACJ.

Palavras-chave : SICA; Regional integration; Human rights; Ius standi; Pro homie principle; Judicial protection.