The growing judicialization of environmental conflicts has placed international human rights protection systems in a central position for the defense of ecosystems and the communities that depend on them. The so-called Nazas River case, currently under review by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), represents a potentially historic precedent for Latin America due to the possibility of recognizing a river as a subject of rights within.....
Keywords: rights of nature, IACHR, Nazas River, international environmental law, human right to water, environmental constitutionalism
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