This following doctoral thesis aims to study the performance of the organs of the Inter-American Human Rights System regarding the protection and promotion of the economic, social and cultural rights. For this, the research starts with considerations about what would be such rights, analyzing and refuting theories and concepts that have tried to refuse them as Human Rights norms, which would have motivated the development of vague normative provisions and the absence of monitoring mechanisms as well, as had been planned for the scroll of the Human Rights group, called civil and political rights. In order to demonstrate that economic, social and cultural rights are part of a fully justiciable rights group, the thesis also examines elements that are commonly attributed to them, such as: such as progressive achievement, prohibition of retrogressive measures, maximum available resources and minimum core content, from what is developed by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, to thereafter present how the organs of the Inter-American System deal with such issues. Of the study of international norms and of the monitoring international system, that were specially built for the economic, social and cultural rights, are verified several levels of legal obligation, of which proposes a classification for the different mechanisms to the access of the regional Human Rights Protection System, which can be directed to the supervision of a jurisdictional organ or quasi-judicial, or by other means that also promote those rights and allow redress in case of violation. The different mechanisms are used by organs of the Inter-American System to protect the economic, social and cultural rights. Due to its importance, the Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights have been studied by this following research, attributing focus on its performance to the rights protection concerned, as well as recent modifications in their functions and procedural rites.
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