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

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

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

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 an advisory opinion ...

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

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

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

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

African countries had 14 of the world’s 67 heat extreme events last year, and several had at least three months of hotter ...

The Trump administration on Thursday recalled its top diplomat in Colombia for “urgent consultations” after recent comments ...

“The Government of the Republic of Vanuatu commends the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) on its groundbreaking advisory opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights, issued today 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 ...