The Right to Social Protest and the Inter-American Standards

Edison Lanza* Versión en español aquí. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only affected human health and life in the region. In many countries, State restrictions in response to the pandemic focused on curtailing the freedoms of expression and association, public assembly, and other central tenets of democracy. While some emergency measures may be legitimate under […]

Prompting the ETOs Debate in the Inter-American Human Rights System

Daniel Cerqueira This article was published as a chapter on the book, For Human Rights Beyond Borders: Handbook on how to hold States accountable for extraterritorial violations by the ETOs Consortium Español In October 2013, a number of Latin American civil society organizations (CSOs) participated in a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) entitled […]