October 2025, Americas: Publication of a compendium of decisions on children’s rights by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, together with Mexico’s Supreme Court, recently published a comprehensive systematisation of decisions made by the first in the field of children’s rights until December 2024. These decisions, which are carefully categorised in relation to the most affected right of the child, have set precedent for the region in a number of areas, including child protection, care, family life and separation, adoption, violence and migration. Indeed, ‘this book seeks to present the progressive development of judicial interpretation standards that enable the analysis of various rights violations through a specific lens: that of the comprehensive protection of the rights of children and adolescents’. In addition, Part 6 of the publication includes the growing jurisprudence of the regional Court that has focused on the child’s right to identity, including a name, nationality and family relations. Thus, Child Identity Protection (CHIP) welcomes this publication, as it reflects the progress made in access to justice by children in the region in a wide range of matters and issues related to their right to identity. It offers promising approaches in the region and may contribute to similar developments in other regional human rights mechanisms.

See: Espejo Yaksic, N., Aguirre Gallardo, C. and Galicia Mendoza, D.A., Rights of Children and Adolescents. Systematization of decisions until December 2024, SCJN/Centro de Estudios Constitucionales and Inter-American Court of Human Rights/Centro de Formación Corte IDH, August 2025, https://www.sitios.scjn.gob.mx/cec/editorial/rights-children-and-adolescents.