The Convention guarantees primarily the civil and political rights.

The  Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty was adopted.

The Commission is empowered to deal with inter-state petitions.

The Commission is mainly about second-generation rights in the economic, social, and cultural spheres.

It aims “to achieve a greater unity between its members for the purpose of safe guarding and realizing the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress”.