The Public Hearings in the Multilevel System of Protection of Human Rights

Abstract

The article aims to demonstrate the hypothesis that public hearings are instruments of participation, cooperation and dialogue construction within the scope of the inter-American multilevel system for the protection of human rights, whose transformative articulation is inherent to it. The methodology used in the research was the analysis of content and documental data collected from samples. The results achieved with the investigation to demonstrate the correctness of the hypothesis and make explicit that the public hearings promote the dialogue between the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Constitutional Courts, the state institutions and the social actors especially impacted by violations of fundamental rights at the national level, and orient the Constitutional Courts to transform into transformative courts.