American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (American Declaration or Bogota Declaration)
Definition
Ratified in 1948, the American Declaration was the world’s first general international human rights instrument. The American Declaration is binding on members of the Organization of American States (OAS) and forms the jurisprudential basis for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The American Declaration has largely been superseded by the more comprehensive American Convention on Human Rights (America Convention), but the American Declaration still guides IACHR decisions involving states, like the United States, that have not ratified the American Convention.