ISSN: 2691-5774
Authors: Moreira da Silva PH and Custodio MM*
The research intends to show how the melting of the Arctic Ocean, caused by the climatic collapse, affects the life of the traditional populations that inhabit the region and its ways of being influenced by the changes of the landscape and of the own structure and environmental availability. In view of this, it aims to present the environmental balance as a Human Right and, in view of this position, demonstrate the need for international mobilization to protect traditional communities that are historically more vulnerable. In order to do so, the study questions the possibility of universal jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, since the litigation previously raised by the Inuit people was frustrated due to the unavailability of the non-jurisdictional countries. In addition, the possibility of litigation is also raised in the International Criminal Court, on the grounds of Ecocide. Thus, through the hypothetical-deductive method and the questions raised by Cloutier SW, et al. [1], the impacts of climate collapse on vulnerable populations will be demonstrated, with a dissertation on the imperative need of effective and sensitive international tutelage - which also justifies the research.
Keywords: Melting of the Arctic Ocean; Human rights; Climate Collapse; Traditional populations; Inter-American Court of Human Rights
