Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Yeah.

Let's maybe turn to the international stage a little bit, because I don't know if you know about this hearing that took place in the Inter-American Courts.

It was brought by the University Network on Human Rights, which is an interesting organization that is started by a guy named Jim Cavallaro.

He used to be the Human Rights Director.

Internationally, the United States would face widespread condemnation from friends and foes, sanctions and diplomatic isolation, undermining long-standing alliances.

Legally, Mexico would likely prevail before the International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Court, resulting in binding rulings against the United States and a significant loss of legal legitimacy.

In global forums, the United States would be formally accused of state terrorism.

Ultimately, the nation would suffer lasting harm to its global image and its credibility as a defender of international law.

Por eso.

Y eso no lo digo yo, lo dice la Corte Interamericana en varios fallos contra Colombia.

Porque es que finalmente, finalmente, ¿qué es lo que nos estamos jugando con el tema del presupuesto? Mire, vuelvo y digo, no es un tema burocrático, es un tema de lucha contra la impunidad, el tema de la vers-- de la verdad, que tampoco les gusta, el tema del cumplimiento de los fallos de la Corte Interamericana.

Es que aquí también está de por medio eso.

¿Cómo vamos a cumplir los fallos de la Corte Interamericana si no podemos funcionar? Entonces, ¿cómo van a cumplir el fallo, por ejemplo, contra Colombia en el caso de la Unión Patriótica? Pues no lo van a poder cumplir.

Es decir, aquí hay muchas cosas en juego.

O sea, el tema no solamente es un tema de bájele una cifra o haga esto.

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In Honduras, protests have taken place for seven weeks outside the Supreme Court in the capital, Tegucigalpa, calling for landmark rulings from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in favor of coastal Garifuna communities to be upheld.

Meanwhile, Gabriel Labrador reports that a Spanish reality TV show called Sobrevivientes or Survivors was scheduled in September to start shooting its new season in Cayos Cochinos, in one of the areas disputed by Garifuna communities along the Caribbean coast of Honduras.

Upon landing at a beach called Playa Uva, the production crew ran into protests by the Garifuna people, an Afro-Indigenous community that has lived there for centuries.

And so this is so simple that we have been to the United Nations stating that reproductive health access is under attack in the United States.

We have gone to the Inter-American Human Rights Court.

and said reproductive health care and access, midwifery, birth, fertility, pregnancy loss and miscarriage are all under attack.

And so that's also what makes them human rights defenders is that they're in the court cases defending human rights.

And then a couple of months ago, I also testified in a court in the city of Neuquén in the southern Patagonian province of Argentina, also in an Operation Condor related case.

I also was an expert witness in the Anatole and Victoria's case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

And I never would have imagined this... opportunities to be able to use academic research to support the search for justice because very often academics carry out a lot of work which tends to remain, you know, to be published in a book or in an article, but it rarely leaves the premises of the university in a way.

And to be able to use information from the database on the victims that I built in the case of Anatole and Victoria, part of my testimony before the Inter-American Court, actually showed with concrete data that Uruguayan exiles specifically belonging to the party for the victory of the people like Roger Julien and Victoria Grisonas had been extremely persecuted in Argentina in 1976. was, in my view, just an incredible opportunity to use academic research in supporting human rights trials, especially because many of the crimes of state terror are based on silence, on denial, on trying to mix truth with reality, with lies, with censorship with strategies to create this misinformation.

There's the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice.

There's one from the Inter-American Court.

And so if you have a system that is allowing in those sources, There will be additional norms that would be that a judge would be called upon to interpret.

That may not be the case, though, in a system where those laws are not self-executing, that you need, you know, regulation or legislation to be passed by Congress or the parliament.