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WEBINAR: Law at the Intersection of Human Rights and the Environment

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Please join us for a webinar on Law at the Intersection of Human Rights and the Environment on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 11:00 – 12:30 EDT. This webinar is co-hosted with the Ecological Law and Governance Association and is the second in the GNHRE series of webinars for 2020. 

Registration in advance for this meeting is required:
https://widener.zoom.us/meeting/register/vpUlcumvpjIj5yruFX2xJkBbywcL_7CKcA

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Panelists:

Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment
Erin Daly (Chair), Director, GNHRE, Professor of Law, Delaware Law School (USA)

The Human Right to a Healthy Environment
John Knox, Former Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (2015-2018), Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law at Wake Forest University, North Carolina (USA)

The Substantive Elements of the Right to.a Healthy Environment
David Boyd, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, UNOHCHR (2018-current)

Climate Displacement, Refugees and Human Rights
Sumudu Atapattu, Director of Research Centers and Senior Lecturer at UW Law School (USA)

A critical perspective on human rights and the environment
Dina Lupin Townsend, research consultant and visiting researcher at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa), author of Human Dignity and the Adjudication of Environmental Rights (Edward Elgar, June 2020).

Recommended Readings:

Knox, J. (draft Feb 2020). Constructing the Human Right to a Healthy Environment. Annual Review of Law and Social Science.

Boyd, D. (July 2019). Report of the Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. UNGA A/74/161.

Boyd, D. (January 2019). Report of the Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. UNGA A/HRC/40/55.

Feature image: Photo by Thomas Richter on Unsplash

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.