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Protecting migrants and environmental human rights through participation. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and its community of practice: towards a climate mobility justice. (EXC 3039)

Third Party Funds Group - Sub project

Acronym: EXC 3039

Start date : 01.12.2026

End date : 30.11.2028

Website: https://www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de/en/research-projects/

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Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights“ (EXC 3039) Jan. 1, 2026 - Dec. 31, 2032

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This project aims to re-construct, analyze and assess how a human rights court situated in the most structurally unequal region in the world links human mobility and planetary environmental crisis within a community of practice by co-producing standards (on rights, obligations, share but differentiated responsibilities, the impact of structural disadvantages, damages, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence), understandings (e.g. climate vulnerability, based in its original inequality approach) and knowledge (rending visible contexts from below, how to protect the nature, the biodiversity, etc.), that may ultimately contribute to undo epistemic injustices.
We sustain that paying attention to the court's role as a pivotal institution within a community of practice reveals that case law and advisory opinions are provisional outcomes of a human rights transforming co-production process. This perspective is better grasped when there is massive and unprecedented participation from a variety of actors, ranging from women in sacrifice zones and indigenous leaders to academics, international organizations and government offices. How is all this situated knowledge “used”, particularly to address climate (im)mobilities injustices?
Thus, the project proposes to reconstruct the Inter-American environmental and human mobility-related developments that converged in AO 32/2025, to map and classify the participation of actors around AO 32/2025, and assess how their contributions shape it. This will provide insight into how interaction within communities of practice enables co-production and maintains “remaining knowledge”, thereby realizing epistemic justice while advancing transformative human rights standards.

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