Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

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Abbreviation	IACHR
Formation	1959
Purpose	Human rights monitoring in the Americas
Location	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Region served	Americas (ACHR signatories, OAS members)
Membership	Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Executive Secretary	Tania Reneaum
Parent organization	Organization of American States
Website	www.oas.org/en/iachr/

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR^[1] or, in the three other official languages – Spanish, French, and Portuguese – CIDH, Comisión Interamericana de los Derechos Humanos, Commission Interaméricaine des Droits de l'Homme, Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS).

The separate Inter-American Court of Human Rights is an autonomous judicial institution based in the city of San José, Costa Rica. Together the Court and the Commission make up the human rights protection system of the OAS.^[2]