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The colonial land tenure in Perú affected the previously existing communal system of land tenure in several ways. This new system of ownership and forced agricultural labor changed over time. However, the semi-slave con...

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of morbidity, mortality, and disability in the Americas. NCDs are largely preventable because of the modifiable nature of their risk factors, including the elevated c...

During the past seventeen years, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), based in San José, Costa Rica, has taken substantial steps to ensure compliance with its decisions. It devised a brand-new tool, known ...

In the context of a global ecological crisis, there is an increasing tendency by actors to recast environmental concerns as legal issues within the framework of international human rights. This article addresses how diff...

This paper analyses the process of implementing the UN framework of “Protect, Respect and Remedy”. First, it presents a historical overview of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and then it refle...

The article engages with the discussions around the right to development, with a special focus on the ongoing process of drafting a legally-binding instrument on the right to development that are currently centered withi...