ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC); the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR); the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR); the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR); and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR). It reviews the regional bodies' analyses of reports submitted by State parties to regional human rights treaties in which measures put in place to implement these treaties. The chapter also reviews the bodies' assessment of complaints alleging violations of human rights contained in regional human rights treaties; and the judicial practice of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It outlines general trends in the protection of vulnerable groups and their members at the regional level. The chapter concludes by offering final and comparative remarks regarding the reach of the protection of these persons as accomplished by the above regional monitoring bodies.
