米州人権保障制度の発展における米州人権委員会の役割:米州人権条約採択に至る過程から1969 · The present article explores the underlying factors that led the governments of the Organization of the American States (OAS) to adopt the American Convention on Human Rights (the convention) in 1969. The convention is the foundation of the inter-American human rights institution, whose functions have been entrusted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.