HUMAN RIGHTS AND RIGHTS OF NATURE: DIALOGUE AND CROSS-FERTILIZATION BETWEEN BOTH VISIONS

Abstract

The article analyzes the interrelation between the two legal views on the environment that have developed in Latin America. On the one hand, the one adopted by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which greened the Inter-American Human Rights System, through the greening of the human right to a healthy environment, generating a domino effect in the high courts of the region. On the other hand, the one embodied in the Constitution of Ecuador (2008), laws in Bolivia (2010 and 2012) and Panama (2022), as well as several Colombian courts decisions, which recognized rights to nature or specific ecosystems, granting them status as subjects of rights.