18 (paras. 107, 120-121 and 126), in force as from 200167, in favor of the individuals as holders of the protected rights, granting them locus standi in judicio at all stages of the adjudicatory procedure before the Court. The aforementioned cases of the “Street Children” and of the Juvenile Reeducation Institute bear eloquent testimony of such right holders affirming and exercising their personality before this Court, even in the direst of circumstances68. 48. During the last five years, individual petitioners have come to participate actively in all the stages of the adjudicatory proceedings before the Inter-American Court, with very positive results during these last three years. Furtehrmore, the have also come to participate most actively in the consulting proceedings as well, as is illustrated by the developments related to the history-making Advisory Opinion No. 16, on the Right to Information on Consular Assistance in the Framework of the Guarantees of the due Process of Law (of October 1, 1999), and Advisory Opinion No. 16, on the Juridical Condition and Rights of the Undocumented Migrants (of September 17, 2003). 49. Direct participation by individuals in all the procedures before the Court, has not been limited to adjudicatory cases and advisory opinions. It has likewise extended to provisional measures of protection, in cases with which the court was already seized, starting with the cases of the Constitutional Court (2000), and of Loayza-Tamayo (2000), both concerning Peru. The foregoing shows, not only the feasibility, but also the importance of the individual accessing directly, with no intermediaries, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, more so in an extremely serious and urgent situation. We are, actually, in the midst of a historical, and legally revolutionary, process where an early 21st century ius gentium new paradigm is in the making. 50. The instant case of the Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community, preceded by the case of the Indigenous Community Yakye Axa, are inscribed along the lines of the emancipation of human beings vis-à-vis his own State so that they may lay claim to the rights inherent to them that, furthermore precede and supersede such State. The members of the aforementioned indigenous communities, abandoned on the roadside, had their case examined and solved (albeit not in a fully satisfactory way) by an international tribunal such as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Perhaps such a universal human conscience development could not have been anticipated by the so-called “realists” a few years back. Something has actually changed in the world, and in this particular matter, for the better. 51. The impact of International Human Rights Law seems to have awakened human conscience to the suffering of those abandoned on the streets and roadsides of the world. Human beings start understanding that they cannot live in peace with themselves in the face of the silent suffering of others, including those around them. 67 . Cf., on the matter, A.A. Cançado Trindade, "Le nouveau Règlement de la Cour Interaméricaine des Droits de l'Homme: quelques réflexions sur la condition de l'individu comme sujet du Droit international", in Libertés, justice, tolérance - Mélanges in hommage au Doyen G. Cohen-Jonathan, vol. I, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2004, pages 351-365. 68 . As, in the case of the "Juvenile Reeducation Institute", the ones suffered by the inmates of the "Panchito López", Institute, even in the midst of three fires (wherein inmates were injured or dead by burning), and further facing the legal standing limitations by reason of their being children (under age), even so, their entitlement to rights directly inuring to them from international law remained intact, and their case reached an international human rights court.

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