Caring for Rights

On August 7, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion OC-31/25, responding to a request submitted by Argentina on the right to care. The Court provided a comprehensive interpretation of the right to care as implicitly embedded in the Convention, connected to other conventional rights, and multifaceted in nature. Care thus becomes an essential component of multiple rights protected by the Convention and binding upon the signing States – implying that soon we might witness the proliferation of respective norms.