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The first, the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the area of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights ( more commonly known as the " Protocol of San Salvador "), was opened for signature in the city of San Salvador, El Salvador, on 17 November 1988.

It represented an attempt to take the inter-American human rights system to a higher level by enshrining its protection of so-called second-generation rights in the economic, social, and cultural spheres.

The protocol's provisions cover such areas as the right to work, the right to health, the right to food, and the right to education.

It came into effect on 16 November 1999 and has been ratified by 14 nations ( see below ).