The Brazilian died this Sunday in Brasilia at the age of 74
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The late judge of the International Court of Justice Antônio Cançado Trindade, in a file photograph. EFE/Juan Ignacio Mazzoni
The Brazilian Antonio Cançado Trindade, judge of the International Court of Justice and world reference in the area of human rights, died this Sunday in Brasilia at the age of 74 age.
Cançado was president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, according to a statement from the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, lamenting the loss of one of “its most brilliant and dedicated jurists”.
He was also the first Brazilian elected in two terms as a magistrate of the International Court of Justice, a UN court that judges disputes between States.
The jurist was a legal consultant to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1985 and 1990 and a professor at the Rio Branco Institute, the Brazilian diplomacy school, between 1979 and 2009.
According to the note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cançado “remained faithful to his ideas and, with tireless determination, left as a legacy a greater humanization of international law.”
“He inspired generations of diplomats in the defense of international law,” he added.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights highlighted in a statement that Cançado was a “true humanist” who always put the victims of human rights violations at the center of all international action.
“His leadership was decisive for the consolidation of the Inter-American System for the protection of Human Rights”, highlighted the president of the Court, Ricardo C. Pérez Manrique.
The Supreme Court of Brazil, for its part, affirmed that the “lessons and inspiration” left by Cançado “are a valuable legacy ” for the country, for the court and for Brazilian law.
(With information from EFE)