Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

After the written and oral phase of the dispute over the status and use of the waters of the Silala between Chile and Bolivia, before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the Court will now deliberate and promptly notify the parties for the issuance of the sentence.In this context, this essay will make known the claims of the States in dispute, analyzing the main issues on which the Court will have to rule and offer some conclusions.

          

                   

After the united provinces located in South America reached independence, it was clear that the biggest threat for their republic would come from the sea. Moreover, South America' s independence would not be possible without the viceroyship of Peru becoming independent from Spain's rule. It was understood that defeating the Spanish rule through the highlands of Peru would mean failure and doing it along the sea was the way to achieve independence. This meant the control of the sea located in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean. The job was concluded, first with the landing in Paracas on the 7th of September and then with the proclamation of independence of Perú the 28th of July in 1821

SPDI Statement No. 005-2022

          

This article explores some theoretical and procedural aspects of the Norwegian mediation in the Venezuelan internal crisis. Likewise, it tries to demonstrate that it is not a mediation of 2019 and another of 2021, but that it consists of a single mediation with a suspension, an interruption and a resumption. This mediation (legal term) or facilitation (political term) has been carried out to date, based in Mexico and with the Netherlands and Russia as accompanying countries.

In the framework of public international law, the collective rights recognized and protected by the ILO Convention No. 169 on indigenous and tribal peoples (1969) are considered human rights. Considering that law and reality constantly feed each other, even more so in the emerging disruptive era, multiculturalism and interculturality, the rights approach, international protection systems and public international law allow to offer preliminary reflections that underline these relationships in the progressive recognition of the Convention as part of international human rights law.

Las atrocidades masivas perpetradas en los últimos años del siglo pasado y las cometidas en el siglo XXI han recibido gran atención por parte de una amplia variedad de actores. En efecto, estas violaciones serias de derechos humanos y del derecho internacional humanitario, que constituyen crímenes internacionales, han originado casos ante cortes supranacionales. La ley y/o la práctica de estas cortes dentro de sus respectivos mandatos específicos demuestran que existe un creciente compromiso judicial internacional con la impartición de justicia en escenarios de atrocidades masivas. En este contexto, la principal pregunta de investigación que aborda este artículo es identificar algunas de las principales contribuciones de las cortes internacionales en casos de atrocidades masivas en el siglo XXI. Para esta finalidad, se tienen en cuenta tres cortes supranacionales: la Corte Internacional de Justicia, la Corte Penal Internacional, y la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos.

The crime of aggression, successor to the crime against peace of the Statute of the TribunalNuremberg International, constitutes the most serious of international crimes. Thecommitting the crime of aggression represents an ipso facto threat against peaceinternational. The Nuremberg Tribunal qualified the war as aggression in its sentence:“Starting a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; is hesupreme international crime that differs from other war crimes only in thatcontains in itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” The crime of aggression is thus aserious violation of the UN Charter and its fundamental principles. Taking thecase of the Russian invasion against Ukraine we will examine how thecrime of aggression in accordance with the most up-to-date and recent expression of the LawInternational Criminal Law which is the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court