7 progressive development towards the construction of a new jus gentium. An important role is here being exercised by the impact of the proclamation of human rights in the international legal order, in the sense of humanizing this latter: those rights were proclaimed as inherent to every human being, irrespectively of any circumstances10. The individual is subject jure suo of International Law, and to the recognition of the rights which are inherent to him corresponds ineluctably the procedural capacity to vindicate them, at national as well as international levels. Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade Judge Manuel E. Ventura-Robles Secretary 10 . IACtHR, Advisory Opinion OC-17/02, on the Juridical Condition and Human Rights of the Child, of 28.08.2002, resolutory point n. 1, and Concurring Opinion of Judge A.A. Cançado Trindade, pars. 1-71.