The current century has witnessed an immense improvement and reconceptualization of human rights norms and sovereignty in Latin America. With rampant repression and human rights violations throughout Latin America in the mid-to-late 20th century, the international human rights regime, an amalgamation of international organizations and bodies and intergovernmental, has grown exponentially. By conducting investigations in certain countries, or simply monitoring overt human rights violations, the international human rights regime has stimulated global awareness of human rights violations in different countries; Soon followed was a change in domestic policy in response to international policy. It has also led to increased opposition from domestic NGOs against repressive governments or dictatorships largely responsible for human rights violations. Likewise, a number of organizations and groups have assisted domestic nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their growing efforts to establish judicial practices that better protect human rights. The declarations, conventions and charters established a number of values ​​which served as the credo of the organizations which constituted the international human rights regime. Over time, more and more countries have been pressured and held accountable for these values, which have become universal standards for human rights practices. Thus, the international human rights regime and the pressure it placed on governments ultimately resulted in widespread positive changes in the area of ​​human rights. Argentina and Chile have experienced similar periods of extreme human rights violations. The international human rights regime's response to and pressure on crimes against humanity...... middle of paper ......he constitutions, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights man and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, according to Wright, "pressured for its decisions to be accepted by the Argentine courts" (166). International, but also national, efforts to apply international jurisprudence to local courts are increasing. For example, in 1995, CELS launched its “program for the application of international human rights law in local courts” based on amendments to the Argentine constitution (Wright 166). Likewise, human rights lawyers have pushed “courts to adopt the international principle that crimes against humanity are not subject to amnesty” (Wright, 167). In summary, the international human rights lobby wanted each country to shape its human rights jurisprudence around the rules of international human rights law, and domestic actors adopted the same goal..