Inter-American Court of Human Rights Archives

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IACtHR’s Advisory Opinion No. 32/25 and Rights of Nature

21.11.2025

Manrique Naranjo Chavarría

International Environmental Law (IEL) was imagined through the prism of anthropocentric values (which allocates worth to Nature based on its utility for humans). Despite this, IEL has been progressively experiencing...

Symposium
Systemic Impacts and Structural Shifts: Climate Change and the Role of the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Timing the Environment in International Law

12.08.2025

David M Scott

In the closing paragraph of its Advisory Opinion on Climate Change (one surely set to be quoted for years to come), the ICJ recalls that ‘it has been suggested that...

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Precaution as Obligation?

01.05.2025

Juan Auz

On March 14, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) made public a landmark ruling holding Ecuador internationally responsible for the violation of various rights of the Tagaeri and...

Book Review
Symposium
Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries

Positive Obligations, Deference and Subsidiarity

27.05.2024

Elena Abrusci

International human rights law and its enforcement systems rely on the collaboration of states to respect their obligations and protect rights. It follows that even when regional human rights courts...

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Abortion in International Human Rights Law at a Crossroads

29.05.2023

Rebecca Smyth

In March 2023, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) held public hearings in Beatriz v El Salvador. Beatriz deserves close attention. It is the first time that the Court...

Bofaxe

Forcing Women to Deprioritize Their Health?

30.03.2023

Mara Ebbers

Six of the sixteen countries in the world, which prohibit abortions under all circumstances, are located in Middle America. Yet it remains unclear whether absolute bans on abortions are compatible...

Symposium
Inter-State Cases under the ECHR

Inter-State Cases in Disguise under Inter-American Human Rights Law

27.04.2021

Jorge Contesse

Unlike the European human rights system, where the amount of inter-State disputes is significant – and growing— the inter-State disputes mechanism under the inter-American human rights regime has had virtually...