In a landmark advisory opinion, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that governments have a legal obligation to ...

Member states must cooperate to tackle climate change and not take actions that set back environmental protections, the Inter ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has urged states to regulate fossil fuel extraction and exploration, in a landmark ...

The decision by the international tribunal in Costa Rica could reshape domestic climate cases across Latin America.

The number of people killed in a landslide this week in northwest Colombia has risen to 22, with eight still missing, ...

In a landmark climate decision, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights recognized that the right to a healthy climate is an ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that countries belonging to the Organization of American States (OAS) have an ...

An advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights also concluded that governments have special obligations to ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -States have the obligation to cooperate in reducing emissions and protecting the environment to counteract climate change, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) said in ...

Eight countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are in the ‘red zone,’ according to an index created by Columbia University and the Rockefeller Foundation ...

Latin America’s top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

THE INTER-AMERICAN Court of Human Rights has issued a landmark advisory opinion on linking governments’ human rights obligations to their responsibility to address the threat of climate change.