Naturaleza y alcance del asilo en el sistema interamericano de Derechos Humanos

Abstract

The concept, nature and scope of asylum are among the most controversial issues in International Law. This article tries to determine the meaning and scope of asylum through the instruments of the Inter-American Law of Human Rights. For this, it stands on the two recent decisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (the judgement on the Pacheco Tineo case and the Advisory Opinion on minor migrants), as well as on the decisions of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights. An adequate comprehension of asylum in the Inter-American system also requires a comparison with the regulation of the institute in the universal system of Human Rights and in the so called Latin-American tradition of asylum.