San José, Costa Rica, July 26, 2022. On July 20 and 21, the Inter-American Court held the first seminar on Best Practices on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Human Rights, the Right to a Healthy Environment and Human Rights Defenders at the "Doctor Arturo Zeledón Castrillo" Judicial Training School in El Salvador.

The event was opened by senior authorities of the National Council of the Judiciary (CNJ) and addressed 30 officials from the Unit for the Development of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples of the Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Office of the Attorney for Defense of Human Rights and judges of El Salvador.

The Seminar was led by the lawyers Patricia Tarre Moser, Director of Human Rights Studies, Juana María Ibáñez Rivas, Specialist Consultant in International Human Rights Law, and Celeste Novelli, lawyer of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, as well as Rogelio Flores Pantoja, Director of the Institute of Constitutional Studies of the State of Querétaro, Mexico.

This Seminar is part of the "Strengthening the Protection of Human Rights and the Rule of Law through jurisprudential dialogue, optimization of institutional capacities and compliance with the Judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras” project, signed with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), through which it seeks  to optimize the  capacities of the  judicial administration  officers  for the application of International Human Rights Law and the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.