The country lobbied aggressively for the establishment of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and became the first nation to recognize the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Human Rights Court, based in San José.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

* Inter-American Court of Human Rights

* Inter-American Court of Human Rights – regional court established in 1979

* Inter-American Court of Human Rights

The Mexican newspaper, The News, reported that “ a tribunal of three circuit court judges ruled that there was not enough proof to link Echeverria to the violent suppression of hundreds of protesting students on Oct. 2, 1968 .” Despite the ruling, prosecutor Carrillo Prieto said he would continue his investigation and seek charges against Echeverria before the United Nations International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.

In August 2005, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered Suriname to pay 3 million USD in compensation to 130 survivors of the massacre, and to establish a 1. 2 million USD fund for the development of Moiwana.

The Inter-American Court of Human rights has judged that the responsible persons have to be prosecuted and punished, however previous governments, and Bouterse ’ s current government have failed to do so.

" Fujimori's alleged association with death squads is currently being studied by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, after the court accepted the case of " Cantuta vs Perú ".

For those countries, the Human Rights Committee functions as a mechanism for the international redress of human rights abuses, similar to the regional mechanisms afforded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights or the European Court of Human Rights.

According to Amnesty International, " In, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled on the “ cotton field ” ( Campo Algodonero ) case that Mexico was guilty of discrimination and of failing to protect three young women murdered in 2001 in Ciudad Juárez or to ensure an effective investigation into their abduction and murder.

San José serves as the headquarters of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human rights.

While the European Court of Human Rights, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights enforce regional human rights law.

Today, it is used by the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human rights.

The Convention defines the human rights that the states parties are required to respect and guarantee, and it also ordered the establishment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

In 1978 the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights convinced an annual meeting of foreign ministers at the OAS to pass a resolution calling on Paraguay to improve its human rights situation.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ( IACHR ) in a 1981 report found evidence for mass executions in the period following the revolution.

" The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights states that: " Although it is true that much of the friction between the Government and the churches arises from positions that are directly or indirectly linked to the political situation of the country, it is also true that statements by high government officials, official press statements, and the actions of groups under the control of the Government have gone beyond the limits within which political discussions should take place and have become obstacles to certain specifically religious activities.

On the other hand, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights states: " During its on-site observation in 1978 under the Government of General Somoza, the Permanent Commission on Human Rights in Nicaragua, ( CPDH ) gave the Commission notable assistance, which certainly helped it to prepare its report promptly and correctly.

* Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

* " Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Panama ", by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 1978, describes human rights violations by the Torrijos regime.

Organizations such as the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights condemned the law and urged the Surinamese judges and the Public Prosecutor ’ s Office to continue the trial.

* Juan E Méndez, LLB Stella Maris Catholic University, Argentina Professor of International Law, Notre Dame University ; First Vice-President, Inter-American Human Rights Commission

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ( the IACHR ) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, also based in Washington, D. C.

Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela.

Macroeconomic stability was adversely affected by political uncertainty, the collapse of informal banking cooperatives, high budget deficits, low investment, and reduced international capital flows, including suspension of IFI lending as Haiti fell into arrears with the Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) and World Bank.

At peak, Haiti's total external debt was estimated at 1. 8 billion dollars, including half a billion dollars to the Inter-American Development Bank, Haiti's largest creditor.

The CTH, the nation's largest trade confederation, was formed in 1964 by the nation's largest peasant organization, the National Association of Honduran Peasants ( Asociación Nacional de Campesinos de Honduras — Anach ), and by Honduran unions affiliated with the Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers ( Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores — ORIT ), a hemispheric labor organization with close ties to the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations ( AFL-CIO ).

In 1982 NOAO was formed to consolidate the management of three optical observatories — Kitt Peak ; the National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico ; and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

Major League Baseball player Moe Berg, a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, was recruited by Nelson Rockefeller ( the coordinator of the U. S. Office of Inter-American Affairs ) and then by the OSS in 1943 because of his language skills.

This was done partly to follow through on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( now the World Trade Organization ) commitments, but also unilaterally as a domestic policy choice or at the urging of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and United States Agency for International Development.

In 1959 a new group of investors, Ramon D. Bosquez and Arturo Gonzalez formed a Texas corporation called Inter-American Radio Advertising, Inc. which was located on Pecan Street in Del Rio, Texas.

Arturo Gonzalez was able to enforce his own contract with the transmitter licensees because his Inter-American Radio Advertising, Inc., held the purse strings to all of the money paid by American advertisers for airtime on XERF.

Rafael E. Martinez was the 2003 United States ' candidate to serve on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the human rights arm of the Organization of American States.

It was alleged by Azula Barrera and Colombian President Mariano Ospina Pérez that Betancourt had supported the armed rising at the 1948 Inter-American Conference that followed the assassination of Gaitán.

In 1979 he was nominated president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States.

Prior to these changes, the OAS's top body was the Inter-American Conference, which in turn was the successor to the International Conference of American States.

Gruening was appointed to the U. S. delegation to the 7th Inter-American Conference in 1933, Director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions of the Department of the Interior, 1934 – 1939, Administrator of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, 1935 – 1937.

At a conference of the Inter-American Indian Institute in Mérida, Yucatán, in November 1980, delegates denounced the Summer Institute of Linguistics, charging that it was using a scientific name to conceal its Protestant agenda and an alleged capitalist view that was alien to indigenous traditions.

Merino was director of the Women ’ s Leadership Program at the Inter-American Development Bank to support and finance projects to enhance women ’ s leadership in Latin America.

According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ( IACHR ), this was justified by the junta by the following reasoning: " The anguish generated in the rest of the surviving family because of the absence of the disappeared would develop, after a few years, into a new generation of subversive or potentially subversive elements, thereby not permitting an effective end to the Dirty War.

It was discovered in 1985 on sky photographs obtained by Arturo Gomez, support technical staff at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory near Vicuña, Chile.

Prior to his selection by NASA in 1978, Hawley was a post-doctoral research associate at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in La Serena, Chile.

It was discovered by Tim C. Beers and collaborators with the Curtis Schmidt telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile and analyzed by Roger Cayrel and collaborators.