Regional responses to global crises

Abstract

Growing inequality, the climate crisis, violence, and human rights violations are ongoing problems across the world. How are Latin American countries and societies answering to challenges that are global in nature, but demand local, national, and regional action? This panel approaches the complex and intricate network of global problems as they manifest across the region, and explores how different countries countries have dealt with, or ignored, these problems. Questions addressed by papers in this panel include: How have political parties and voters responded to social unrest and environmental disasters? What are Latin American countries doing to address the elevated rates of violence and persecution against environmental rights defenders? What role can international courts play, and what happens when countries ignore their decisions?

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Weathering the Ballot Box: 25 years of Natural Disasters and Politics in Latin Ameirca	View Paper Details
Environmental Human Rights Defenders in Colombia: Activists under Threat in their Fight for a Just Socio-Ecological Transition	View Paper Details
The 21st role of the Inter- American System of Human Rights: the challenges of the case of Peru and the Constitutional Court	View Paper Details