IACHR Means Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, is an essential part of the Inter-American System for the protection and promotion of human rights in America. Headquartered in Washington and San José Costa Rica, the IACHR represents the main and independent body of the OAS (Organization of American States) that is in charge of ensuring compliance with the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, Created in Bogotá in 1948, However, it was in 1959 when this commission was founded. Since then, the mission of the IACHR has been to conduct reviews and reconnaissance visits to its member countries to verify that human rights are fully complied with.
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has the right to sanction and establish fines and to the countries that inflict human rights violations. Basically, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights approaches a country to review compliance with human rights when a complaint, complaint or petition is received from the same country.
The IACHR created the American Convention on Human Rights, which entered into force in 1978 and has been ratified, as of September 1997, by 25 countries: Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela. The Convention defines the human rights that the ratifying States undertake internationally to respect and provide guarantees so that they are respected.
