7 23. In this way, the Court, at the same time that it has innovated and taken a qualitative step in its case-law - of growing importance in the last years - in the matter of Provisional Measures of Protection, has also acted with prudence: it has listened attentively to the oral pleadings of the Commission and the State and has verified the great seriousness of both in the treatament of the theme in their interventions during the aforementioned public hearing before the Tribunal; it has recognized the high complexity of the problem dealt with herein in its distinct aspects; it has taken care not to prejudge the merits of the case pending before the Inter-American Commission (in particular as to the question of the guarantees of the due process of law); it has shown its sensitiveness to the needs of protection; and it has contributed to the definitive characterization of the tutelary, rather than purely precautionary, character of the provisional measures of protection in the conceptual universe of the International Law of Human Rights (cf. supra). 24. I cannot, thus, fail to express my hope that the measures which the Dominican Republic comes to take, in conformity with the Provisional Measures of Protection individualized in the present Resolution of the Court, are reverted to the benefit of all the other persons - not indicated nominally in the petition of the InterAmerican Commission - who find themselves in the same situation of vulnerability and risk. Law does not operate in the vacuum; it evolves pursuant to the fulfilment of social needs and to the recognition of the values underlying its norms. 25. A role of fundamental importance is reserved to Law in order to fulfil the new needs of protection of the human being, particularly in the dehumanized world in which we live. At the beginning of the XXIst century, there is, definitively, pressing need to situate the human being in the place which corresponds to him, that is, in the centre of the public policies of the States (such as population policies) and of all process of development, and certainly above capitals, investments, goods and services. There is, moreover, pressing need to develop conceptually the law of the international responsibility, so as to comprise, besides the responsibility of the State, also that of non-State actors. This is one of the greatest challenges of public power and of legal science in the "globalized" world in which we live, from the perspective of the protection of human rights. Antônio A. Cançado Trindade Judge Manuel E. Ventura-Robles Secretary