Gender, Justice, and the Climate Emergency
16.01.2026
Pilar Maturana Cabezas
Lorena Zenteno Villa
The global climate crisis exacerbates structural inequalities. Women, who defend human and environmental rights, face specific forms of violence that, in many cases, are neither recognized nor adequately addressed by...
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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...
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- 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
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
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...
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- Book Review
- Symposium
- Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries
Positive Obligations, Deference and Subsidiarity
27.05.2024
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
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...
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Forcing Women to Deprioritize Their Health?
30.03.2023
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...
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- Symposium
- Inter-State Cases under the ECHR
Inter-State Cases in Disguise under Inter-American Human Rights Law
27.04.2021
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...
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