Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
* [Reproduced from the English text provided to International Legal Materials by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Previous Inter-American Court of Human Rights Advisory Opinions referred to in this Advisory Opinion have been reproduced in I.L.M. “Other Treaties Subject to the Advisory Jurisdiction of the Court, Advisory Opinion OC-1/82, appears at 22 I.L.M. 51 (1983); The Effect of Reservations on the Entry into Force of the American Convention on Human Rights, Advisory Opinion OC-2/82, at 22 I.L.M. 37 (1983); and Restrictions to the Death Penalty, Advisory Opinion OC-3/83, at 23 I.L.M. 320 (1984).]