The Development and Evolution of the Right to Life in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Absztrakt

Aim: To examine different aspects of the evolution and development of the right to life in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Moreover, to analyse certain cases related to the violation of this right and its procedural and substantial aspects.

Methodology: The methods chosen for this article are Documental Analysis and Case Study. To conduct the research, the methodological technique of documental investigation will be used. The objectives will be reached through the examination, reading, and critique analysis of the documents. The methodological technique selected allows through the observation and the analysis of documentation to look back, understand, and interpret the current reality. The subject of study is the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR). The main documents are going to be texts of doctrine about this tribunal and the right to life and the case-law of contentious cases of this Court.

Findings: This text establishes theoretical definitions. Furthermore, tries to define the crime of enforced disappearances that have been very important for the development of the right to life in the IACHR and which is a crime against humanity. Other important characteristic of this paper is that it examines the obligation to investigate, the procedural aspect of the right to life, the interpretation of Article 4 of the American Convention of Human Rights (Right to Life) and the proportionality of the use of the force of security forces in relation with the violation of the right to life.

Value: To give important concepts about the study of the right to life taking as case study the evolution and development of this right in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.