Abstract

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has developed extensive juris-prudence on the rights of indigenous and tribal peoples in which it has recognized the right of these peoples to collective property over land and traditional territory, through an extensive and evolutionary interpretation of the rights of the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR). We argue that the Court’s jurisprudence on indigenous rights leads to a strong connection with the human right to science and the relationship be-tween both rights can contribute to strengthening and expanding the evolutionary in-terpretation of the Inter-American Court.