ABSTRACT
This Convention, drawn up in 1969, forbade torture and maltreatment of prisoners, guaranteed freedom of expression and of religion, and provided for the creation of an Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It entered into force on 18 July 1978, upon its ratification by Grenada (the others parties are Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Panama and Venezuela.) Nicaragua ratified the Convention in September 1979.
