ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the main sources of law and constituted bodies of the Inter-American Human Rights system and discusses instances and potential for incorporation of the principles of sustainable development. Two of the New Delhi Principles stand out in the Inter-American Court's more recent decisions: the principle of public participation and access to information and justice, and the principle of integration and interrelationship. The New Delhi Declaration describes public participation as 'a condition for responsive, transparent and accountable governments'. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights investigates complaints or petitions regarding human rights violations and promotes human rights measures. In The Case of the Mayagna Awas Tigni Community v Nicaragua, the Court considered an indigenous group's opposition to a logging concession on the Community's traditional lands. The Awas Tigni Community's subsistence was based on family farming, communal agriculture, gathering, hunting and fishing, according to a traditional collective form of social organization.
