Inter-American Human Rights System and Socioenvironmental Justice

an analysis based on the rights of indigenous peoples

Abstract

The Inter-American Human Rights System (ISHR) has built a multi-ethnic and multicultural orientation with a view to better recognizing and protecting the rights of indigenous peoples in Latin America. This is evidenced, mainly, by its jurisprudence increasingly oriented towards a regionalization of the American Convention on Human Rights, capable of encompassing the cultural specificities of the diverse peoples of the region and protecting, with equity, the many interests and rights at stake within a globalized dynamic. Based on the concept of socio-environmental justice, this research seeks to understand the performance of this system in protecting the rights of Latin American indigenous peoples, as well as its influence on the Brazilian State, in a scenario of historical, permanent and violent territorial conflicts. Therefore, the dialectical method aims to understand the protective structure of the ISHR; the configuration of socio-environmental rights based on the interrelationship between indigenous peoples and nature; and what are the main milestones of the actions of the ISHR in protecting these rights. In the end, final considerations will be drawn up with a view to forming a hermeneutic horizon capable of guiding Brazilian state action.