50). 26. As I allowed myself to previously state in my Concurring Opinion in the historic Advisory Opinion n. 16 of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the Right to Information on Consular Assistance in the Famework of the Guarantees of the Due Process of Law (of 01.10.1999), we nowadays witness "the process of humanization of international law, which today encompasses also this aspect of consular relations. In the confluence of these latter with human rights, the subjective individual right to information on consular assistance, of which are titulaires all human beings who are in the need to exercise it, has crystallized: such individual right, inserted into the conceptual universe of human rights, is nowadays supported by conventional international law as well as by customary international law" (par. 35). 27. On other occasions I referred to the subjective right within certain contexts.28 The conceptualization of subjective right historically came before the appearance and extraordinary expansion of International Human Rights Law throughout the second half of the XX century and in this first decade of the XXI century. With the appearance and consolidation of the latter, a decisive step was taken towards the definitive emancipation of human beings before their own State. 28. This also led to the clarification of the international juridical personality of human beings, whose conceptualization, throughout the last decades, - directly related to the access of human beings to international justice, - I covered in my Concurring Opinion in the case of Five Pensioners v. Peru (Reparations, Judgment of 02.28.2003), as well as in my Concurring Opinions in the cases of Yatama v. Nicaragua, and Goiburú et al. v. Paraguay (Judgments of 06.23.2005 and 09.22.2006, respectively), as well as in the case of the Members of the Team of Community Teams and Psychosocial Action - ECAP (case of the Massacre of Plan de Sánchez v. Guatemala, Order on Provisional Protection Measures, of 11.29.2006).29 4. From Subjective Law to the New Dimension of International Juridical Entitlement of Human Beings. 29. The international juridical entitlement of human beings, as foreseen by the socalled “founders” of International Law, is currently a reality. Within the realm of International Human Rights Law, today the European and Inter-American protection systems – with international tribunals in operation – acknowledge, next to the individual’s juridical personality, their international procedural capacity (locus standi in judicio). This is a logical development, since it does not seem reasonable to conceive rights within the international realm without the corresponding procedural capacity to defend them; individuals are in fact the true petitioners in the international legal human rights processes. Regarding the right of international individual petitions the juridical mechanism of emancipation of the human being vis-à-vis the State itself for the protection of their rights within the realm of International Human Rights Law are . For example, in my Concurring Opinion in Advisory Opinion n. 18 (of 09.17.2003) of this Court, on the Juridical Condition and Rights of the Undocumented Migrants, I referred to the construction of the subjective individual right to asylum (paras. 31-43); reproduced in: A.A. Cançado Trindade, Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos - Esencia y Trascendencia (Votos en la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 1991-2006), México, Edit. Porrúa/Universidad Iberoamericana, 2007, pages 63-68. I also referred to legal subjectivity in my Concurring Opinion (paras. 17-28) in the case of the Castro Castro Criminal Center, regarding Peru (Judgment of 11.25.2006); also reproduced in ibid., pages 820-845. 28 29 . Reproduced in ibid., pages 355-362, 568-570, 779-804, and 1020-1025, respectively.

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