Excerpts from Dr . Baratta's Conclusions:
Right of Individual Petition --Individuals are the ones who suffer human rights abuses, usually at the hands of governments. The right to petition the government for a redress of grievances was one of the most painfully won civil rights in the West. In the world at large, the right of individual petition to UN supervisory bodies ought to be recognized as a matter of right, as it is in the American Convention and generally has been (optionally) in the European Convention.
