This article aims to seek a brief reflection on the interrelationships between the international environmental protection and the human rights issues and to analyze the contributions of the process of greening the Inter-American human rights system - a phenomenon that occurs when environmental issues are protected by the American Convention on Human Rights devices, which are in principle focused on the guarantee of civil and political rights.
Human rights; Environment; Inter-American System; The reflex pathway defense; Greening; American Convention on Human Rights