Human Rights do not constitute a closed list. The assertion of emerging rights by political and social movements with varying degrees of influence is a common phenomenon in societies marked by cultural, political, economic, environmental, and even armed conflicts. The progress of modern, open, and inclusive societies requires reflection on the legal foundations and conceptual bases of these new rights, as well as on the expanded dimensions of “traditional” rights. Efforts to integrate these “emerging” rights into our constitutional and international frameworks rely on a theory that adequately grounds and defines them, as well as on institutional practice that recognizes and develops them—an interaction at multiple levels between political and social movements, the academic sphere, and institutional practice.
In recent decades, the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) has served as a laboratory for legal innovation, allowing the scope of rights to extend to realities that, in classical discourse, fell outside their domain. This workshop aims to explore both the emergence and a development of these “emerging” rights and the new dimensions of existing rights…
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