**11. State duty to respect and promote human rights**

All organs of the State, of any of the Executive, Legislative or Judicial powers, must act in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 of the Constitution. Thus, various provisions that outside this context would appear to be restrictive of human rights can only be interpreted systematically within the context given by these international human rights norms; such interpretations will therefore have to be compatible with this context. Thus, for example, the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Conventions against Torture, etc., will prevail over any other legal or constitutional norm that may undermine them. In the same way, the Courts of Justice should not be able to hide behind an alleged exclusive competence of the Executive, when human rights are at stake. This essential principle of modern law could be violated by an alleged preeminence of the national norm due to procedural problems, which, in any case, is resolved by national law.
