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Latin & South America

19 Mar

[Javier Urizar is a Guatemalan human rights lawyer, currently working at the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)] A Spanish version of this post has been published on Agenda Estado de Derecho here. National courts have always had an inseparable relationship with human rights. As the controlbody by excellence, they have been fundamental in limiting the acts of authority and sanctioning those...

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17 Feb

[Carolina Trejos (LLM in Public International Law) is a consultant at the Special Jurisdiction of Peace, on macro-case 07 regarding child recruitment. She was a legal fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights and interned at Women’s Link Worldwide and the Inter-America Commission of Human Rights.] Introduction On February 2023, the Special Jurisdiction of Peace (JEP), the transitional justice tribunal in Colombia,...

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07 Feb

[Alejandra Mora is Executive Secretary of the CIM Jurist, feminist, researcher, Costa Rican politician, and women’s rights activist Marta Martínez is a political scientist and CIM Specialist since 2011, specializing in democracy and parity] General Recommendation No. 40 (GR40) is a crucial tool in today’s challenging and evolving landscape. The advancements in AI, digital economies, and circular green economies, alongside the challenges...

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27 Jan

I know Colombia kinda, sorta backed down in the end, but its President's response to Trump's mindless sabre-rattling over deportation flights deserves to be read in full by everyone. Here it is in Spanish: Trump, a mi no me gusta mucho viajar a los EEUU, es un poco aburridor, pero confieso que hay cosas meritorias, me gusta ir a los barrios...

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24 Sep

[Pedro Serodio holds an LL.M in International and European Law at the Universität des Saarlandes and a Legal Assistant at MarketVector Indexes, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany] Introduction The global issue of deforestation and its environmental consequences stand at the forefront of Brazil's agenda as it directs a critical crossroads. In this context, the Brazilian Ecological Transition Plan, an initiative by the...

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23 Sep

[Silvia Rojas Castro is a Legal Advisor at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Germany and a South-North Expert between ECCHR and the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) in Argentina. Both ECCHR and CELS supported the filing of the complaint against Uribe Vélez in Argentina. Dr. Julieta Mira is a researcher at the National Scientific...

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01 Aug

[Eoin Jackson is a PHD Candidate at LSE] At present, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) is considering its Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights. The proceedings follow on the heels of the landmark European Court of Human Rights decision in KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland, where the Court issued a declaratory judgment that the human rights of the...

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16 Jul

[Eva Buzo is a barrister and Executive Director of Victim Advocates International. Clare Brown is a Senior Legal Officer and Gender Advisor for Victim Advocates International. Kate Gibson is an international criminal lawyer and Senior Counsel to Victim Advocates International. Pia Conradsen is Rohingya Victim Coordinator of Victim Advocates International.] On 28 June 2024, the Argentine Prosecutor Guillermo F. Marijuán asked...

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01 Jul

[Kate McInnes is a practicing lawyer based in Vancouver, Canada, and a student in the M.Sc. in International Human Rights Law program at the University of Oxford] In 2023, 25 people in the border town of Ciudad Juárez died by feminicidio, or feminicide — the highest number in Mexico, which itself is a global epicentre of gender-based violence. The year began...

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28 Jun

[Dr Shea Elizabeth Esterling is a Senior Lecturer Above the Bar in the Faculty of Law, University of Canterbury (Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand), Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Group (2021-24) and Chair of the Cultural Heritage and the Arts Interest Group (2024-27). She is the author of Indigenous Cultural Property and International Law:...

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31 May

[Benjamin Meret is a PhD Candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Geneva. He holds an MA in international law from the Geneva Graduate Institute of international and development studies.] On the evening of January 9th, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa declared that the country’s armed forces were in an internal armed conflict against various criminal groups. This followed several critical...

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31 May

[Lucas Carlos Lima is a professor of international law at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais] It was expected that the advisory opinion on the climate emergency and human rights requested by the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Chile to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (‘IACtHR’ or ‘Court’) would attract a high level of participation. While the 2017 Advisory...

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