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Such convergences - en at normative, hermeneutic [cf.] and operative levels were reaffirmed in all preparatory meetings of the present Commemorative
Colloquy of Mexico City, and repercute [cf.] nowadays in other parts of the
world, conforming the most [more] lucid international legal doctrine on the
matter"28.
22.
Those convergences29 were, not surprisingly, further reflected in the 2004 Mexico
Declaration and Plan of Action to Strengthen the International Protection of Refugees in Latin
America itself. Thus, as the rapporteur of the Committee of Legal Experts of the UNHCR at last
warned at the Mexico Colloquy of November 2004,
"there is no place for the vacatio legis, there is
no legal vacuum, and
all (...) persons are under the protection of the Law, in all and any
circumstances (also in face of security measures)"30.
23.
In the Inter-American Court, this is not the first time in which I see it fit to draw
attention to the contemporary and growing tragedy of uprootedness. Already in this Court's
Order of Provisional Measures of Protection, of 18.08.2000, in the case of the Haitians and
Dominicans of Haitian Origin in the Dominican Republic, I devoted my whole Concurring
Opinion (pars. 1-25) to disclose the truly global dimension of uprootedness in the dehumanized
world in which we live today31. It is significant that, in the present case of the Moiwana
Community versus Suriname, the Court, on the basis of the American Convention and in the
light of the principle jura novit curia, devoted a whole section of the present Judgment to
forced displacement - a malaise of our times - and established a violation by the respondent
. Ibid., p. 369.
28
. Cf. A.A. Cançado Trindade, "Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, Derecho
Internacional de los Refugiados y Derecho Internacional Humanitario: Aproximaciones y
Convergencias", in 10 Años de la Declaración de Cartagena sobre Refugiados - Memoria del
Coloquio Internacional (San José of Costa Rica, Dec. 1994), San José of Costa Rica,
IIDH/UNHCR, 1995, pp. 77-168; A.A. Cançado Trindade, "Aproximaciones y Convergencias
Revisitadas: Diez Años de Interacción entre el Derecho Internacional de los Derechos
Humanos, el Derecho Internacional de los Refugiados, y el Derecho Internacional Humanitario
(De Cartagena/1984 a San José/1994 y México/2004)", in Memoria del Vigésimo Aniversario
de la Declaración de Cartagena sobre Refugiados (1984-2004), San José of Costa Rica,
UNHCR, 2005, pp. 139-191.
29
. Ibid., p. 369.
30
. Nowadays the number of migrants far outweigh those of refugees (18 million) and displaced
persons (25 million) in the world. Current estimates indicate a total of 120 million people in
situations of considerable vulnerability. Yet, the overwhelming majority of States has not yet
ratified the 1990 U.N. Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Families. This
indicates that what most States (of those who temporarily rule them) care about today is to
secure free flows of investment capital (for quick profit), of goods and services, but not of
human beings; in fact, they do not seem to care in the least about people and their living
conditions. This portrays the dehumanized world in which we happen to live.
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