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The article presents the discussion on Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) celebrating the sixtieth anniversary in 2019. Topics include countries working together for establishing the conventions and organizations in governing the interaction of the nations of the Americas; and governments and societies protecting the fundamental rights belonging to each human being regardless of the nationality.

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On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the objective of this research paper is to reflect on the impact that the appearance and development of International Human Rights Law has had on the functioning of different national law systems, specifically in Latin America, and to identify some of the interesting and demanding challenges, both theoretical and practical, that this phenomenon poses to the world of law. In the analysis of these transformations, some of the questions addressed are: the juridical grounding of the former; the complex task of how to harmonize, both political and legally, the national and international instances; some practical and operative problems that have appeared with the rise of the international courts that specialise in these issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I attempt to make a description and an assessment of some of the main contents of neoconstitutionalism. This new current is framed in post Second World War european constitutional law and in the work developed by national constitutional courts. Three main aspects are identified, that characterise neoconstitutionalism: the legal system's transformation due to the normative value attributed to the constitution; the new theory of law that accompanies this event and the institutional role that judges begin to develop, following the new paradigm and causing the rise of new jurisprudence doctrines. I afterwards analize the possibilities and risks posed by the pattern of neoconstitutionalism. Firstly, it is suggested that the development of this current may notably contribute to the effective validity of human rights, by means of the judges' active task. Secondly, two possible risks are pointed out: an excessively individualistic and relativist conception of human rights, and the possibility of a judicial activism that could affect the normal functioning of the institutional system. Finally, I report how the neoconstitutionalist theses have been received in the argentine constitutional law, specially in the 1994 constitutional reform and in some of the most recent cases adressed by the Supreme Court of that country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]