Mexico Declaration and Plan of Action to Strengthen the International Protection of Refugees in Latin America

 The Governments of participating Latin American countries,
Gathered in Mexico City to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees of 1984, that reinvigorated the generous tradition of asylum in Latin America,
Recognizing Latin America’s contribution to the progressive development of international refugee law beginning in 1889 with the Treaty on International Penal Law and continuing with, among other instruments, the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man of 1948, the American Convention on Human Rights of 1969, the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees of 1984, the document entitled “Principles and Criteria for the Protection of and Assistance to Central American Refugees, Returnees and Displaced Persons in Latin America” (CIREFCA-1989), the 1988 Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” and the San Jose Declaration on Refugees and Displaced Persons of 1994, as well as the doctrine and jurisprudence in this field developed, respectively, by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, [...]