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PPT Session on Human Rights, Fracking, and Climate Change

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Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University will co-host the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking, and Climate Change from May 14 to 18, 2018.

The panel of judges of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal will be asked to provide an advisory opinion on four central questions:

  1. Under what circumstances do fracking and other unconventional oil and gas extraction techniques breach human rights protected by international law as a matter of treaty or custom?
  2. Under what circumstances do fracking and other unconventional oil and gas extraction techniques warrant the issuance of either provisional measures, a judgment enjoining further activity, remediation relief, or damages for causing environmental harm?
  3. What is the extent of responsibility and liability of States and non-State actors for violations of human rights and for environmental and climate harm caused by these oil and gas extraction techniques?
  4. What is the extent of responsibility and liability of States and non-State actors, both legal and moral, for violations of the rights of nature related to environmental and climate harm caused by these unconventional oil and gas extraction techniques?

For the first time this session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal will be hosted completely online.  Attorneys and witnesses will convene via Zoom web conferencing software each day to present evidence and testimony to the panel of the judges of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal.

The proceedings will be streamed on the Spring Creek Project Facebook page and in the OSU Student Experience Center. A full schedule of daily Tribunal proceedings will be available soon, on the Spring Creek Project websiteand on tribunalonfracking.org

More: http://permanentpeoplestribunal.org/may-14-18-2018-ppt-session-on-human-rights-fracking-and-climate-change/?lang=en

14-18 de Mayo: Sesión del Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos sobre Derechos humanos, fracking y cambio climático

El Proyecto Spring Creek en la Universidad Estatal de Oregón será coanfitrión de la sesión del Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos sobre Derechos Humanos, Fracking y Cambio Climático desde el 14 hasta el 18 de mayo de 2018.

Se pedirá al panel de jueces del Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos que brinde una Opinión consultiva sobre cuatro preguntas centrales:

  1. ¿Bajo qué circunstancias el fracking y otras técnicas de extracción de petróleo y gas no convencionales violan los derechos humanos protegidos por el derecho internacional?
  2. ¿En qué circunstancias el fracking y otras técnicas de extracción de petróleo y gas no convencionales justifican la emisión de medidas provisionales, un juicio que ordena nuevas actividades, medidas correctivas o daños por causar daño ambiental?
  3. ¿Cuál es el alcance de la responsabilidad y la responsabilidad de los Estados y los agentes no estatales por las violaciones de los derechos humanos y por los daños ambientales y climáticos causados por estas técnicas de extracción de petróleo y gas?
  4. ¿Cuál es el alcance de la responsabilidad y la responsabilidad de los Estados y actores no estatales, tanto legales como morales, por violaciones de los derechos de la naturaleza relacionados con el daño ambiental y climático causado por estas técnicas de extracción de petróleo y gas no convencionales?

Por primera vez, esta sesión del Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos será realizada completamente en internet. Los abogados y testigos se reunirán a través del software de conferencia web Zoom todos los días para presentar evidencias y testimonios ante el panel de jueces del Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos.

El procedimiento se transmitirá en el Spring Creek Project Facebook page y en el OSU Student Experience Center. El programa completo de los procedimientos diarios del Tribunal estará disponible en: Spring Creek Project website y tribunalonfracking.org

15-18 maggio 2018: Sessione su Diritti umani, fracking e cambiamento climatico

La Sessione del Tribunale Permanente dei Popoli su Diritti umani, fracking e cambiamento climatico sarà ospitata dallo Spring Creek Project dell’Oregon State University e si terrà dal 14 al 18 maggio 2018.

I giudici nominati dal Tribunale sono chiamati a valutare:

  1. In quali circostanze il fracking e altre tecniche non convenzionali di estrazione del petrolio e del gas violano i diritti umani tutelati dal diritto internazionale?
  2. In quali circostanze il fracking e altre tecniche non convenzionali di estrazione del petrolio e del gas determinano o misure provvisorie, una valutazione che impone ulteriori controlli, interventi di risanamento o rischi ambientali?
  3. Qual è l’entità della responsabilità degli Stati e degli attori non statali per le violazioni dei diritti umani e per i danni ambientali e climatici causati da queste tecniche di estrazione del petrolio e del gas?
  4. Qual è l’entità della della responsabilità degli Stati e degli attori non statali, sia legale che morale, per le violazioni dei diritti della natura connessi ai danni ambientali e climatici causati da queste tecniche non convenzionali di estrazione del petrolio e del gas?

La Sessione del Tribunale Permanente dei Popoli sarà realizzata utilizzando il software zoom, una piattaforma di videoconferenza online che permetterà ad esperti e testimoni di presentare analisi e casi ai giudici del Tribunale. Il live streaming sarà disponibile sulla pagina di Facebook dello Spring Creek Project e presso l’OSU Student Experience Center. Il programma della Sessione sarà presto consultabile nei seguenti siti: Spring Creek Project website e tribunalonfracking.org

Maggiori informazioni: http://permanentpeoplestribunal.org/15-18-maggio-2018-sessione-su-diritti-umani-fracking-e-cambiamento-climatico/

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Dina Lupin

By Dina Lupin

Dina Lupin is the Director of the GNHRE and a Lecturer at the School of Law at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdon. Dina is an affiliated researcher in the project “Giving groups a proper say”, supported by the Austrian Science Fund and hosted at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Dina‘s current research is on silencing and epistemic injustice in the context of consultation processes with Indigenous peoples and her latest article on this subject can be found here. In 2020, Dina’s book, “Human Dignity and the Adjudication of Environmental Rights” was published with Edward Elgar Press.

Previously Dina worked as a Post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tilburg researching civil society organisations working on sustainable development in Ethiopia. You can read more about the research project here.

Dina was awarded her PhD in 2017 by the Department of Public and International Law at the University of Oslo. Her PhD was on the concept of human dignity in the context of environmental law and governance.

Dina completed her BA and LLB at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and her Master of Laws, with honours, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Dina previously worked as a Senior Attorney at the Centre for Environmental Rights (cer.org.za) in Cape Town. At the Centre, Dina represented a range of communities and activists in their battles for more transparent, accountable environmental and water management in the mining sector. She worked on the
legal aspects of acid mine drainage, hydraulic fracturing and was
instrumental in the facilitation of a community activist network in the field of mining and environmental justice. Dina also led the Centre’s work on improving transparency in environmental governance. As a result of her work at the Centre, Dina was included in the 2013 list of 200 Young South Africans published by the Mail and Guardian .

Dina has also worked in the Mining and Natural Resources team at Webber Wentzel, a South African law firm.