Environmental Conventionality Control: An analysis in the framework of the Inter-American Human Rights System

"The idea of human rights is thus as old as the history of civilisations itself, having soon manifested itself, in different cultures and at successive historical moments, in the affirmation of the dignity of the human person, in the struggle against all forms of domination and exclusion and oppression, and in the safeguard against despotism and arbitrariness, and in the assertion of participation in community life and the principle of legitimacy." Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade.