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Latin & South America

07 Oct

[Moises A. Montiel Mogollon is a professor of international law at the Centro de Investigaciones Docentes y Económicas (CIDE)] As a result of the unilateral military buildup in the southern Caribbean by the United States with the alleged goal of combatting drug trafficking, the North-American nation has conducted a series of militarized operations resulting in the death of presumptively Venezuelan nationals...

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03 Oct

[Milagros Mutsios Ramsay is a J.S.D. Candidate at Yale Law School. She currently serves as the Legal Advisor to the Presidency of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights] The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion OC-32/25 on Climate Emergency and Human Rights constitutes one of the most ambitious legal articulations of State’s obligations in the era of climate crisis. This...

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03 Oct

[Mariana Cruz Astudillo holds a law degree from the University of Chile, belongs to the Colla First Nation, and is a research associate at the Centre of Law and Climate Change Studies at the University of Valparaíso (CEDYCC)] Introduction On July 3, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter the Court) issued Advisory Opinion OC-32/25 (hereinafter OC-32/25) in response to a...

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02 Oct

[Ignacio Vásquez Torreblanca is the Executive Director of the Centre for Law and Climate Change Studies at the University of Valparaíso, Chile, a Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute, Germany and a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK] Latin America is one of the regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, but it is also a...

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02 Oct

[Laura Baron-Mendoza is a legal consultant to the Office of the Prosecutor and is part of the core team responsible for drafting the upcoming policy paper on environmental crimes under the Rome Statute. She is also an international law consultant and PhD candidate at McGill University] The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ recent Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency and Human Rights (AO-32/25)...

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01 Oct

[Lucas Carlos Lima is professor of international law at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and coordinator of the Brazilian Researchgroup on international courts and tribunals] The Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights (OC-32/25), rendered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR or Court) on 29 May 2025, offers a contribution to clarifying the relationship between international environmental...

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01 Oct

[María Paula Marroquín works at the Center for Studies and Dissemination of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from San Francisco de Quito University and an MA in Social Justice and Education from University College London.] In July 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHtR) issued the Advisory Opinion AO-32/25 on Climate Emergency and Human...

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30 Sep

[Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho is an MPhil candidate at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. This post was written while the author was a research associate at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore.] In this post, I claim that Advisory Opinion 32/25 (AO-32/25 or Opinion) of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Court) reshapes the way...

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30 Sep

[Erick Guapizaca Jiménez is an S.J.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Law School, a lecturer at the Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, and an Assistant Editor with Opinio Juris] Once again, the Inter-American Court stands at the edge of history with the Advisory Opinion 32/25 (AO-32/25). This time, the Court addresses a monster of our own making, climate change. Responding to...

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12 Sep

[Gabriel Andrés Concha Botero is a Colombian lawyer and consultant at the International Direction of the National Agency for Legal Defense of the State, and currently pursuing a Master’s in International Law at Universidad del Rosario] On June 2, 2025, Guatemala’s Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity requested arrest warrants for Iván Velásquez and Adriana Camargo, both Colombian nationals and former members...

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26 Aug

[Angel Cabrera is a Mexican human rights lawyer and an Assistant Professor of international law and human rights at the University of Washington Tacoma. He holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School and an LL.B. from the University of Guadalajara.] In a request submitted last December, Guatemala asked the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (the “Court”) to issue an...

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30 Jul

[Juan Auz is an Ecuadorian lawyer and a postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg University's Law School] 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 Taromenane, the last remaining indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation (PIAV) in the western Ecuadorian Amazon...

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