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SAVE THE DATE: The 2021 GNHRE-UNEP Summer/Winter School

SAVE THE DATE: 21 June – 25 June 2021

The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will host their first annual online Summer/Winter school from 21 -25 June 2021 on the theme Critical Perspectives in Human Rights and the Environment. 

The Summer/Winter school will consist of a series of lectures and panel discussions, hosted by leading experts, practitioners and researchers working at the cutting edge of human rights and the environment. Participants will have an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of many of the most pressing issues of our time, discover and engage with the latest research, and participate in discussions and debates. 

Courses:

The Summer/Winter school will feature a range of courses, including courses on the following topics:

  • Climate Change and Human Rights
  • Decolonisation and Protected Areas
  • Environmental defenders in times of pandemic 
  • Business, Human Rights and the Environment
  • Environmental rule of law and human rights
  • The marine environment, marine litter and human rights
  • Environmental crime and human rights
  • Waste, pollution and human rights
  • Human dignity, human rights and the Environment
  • Rights for Nonhumans in the Anthropocene
  • Participation as Resistance

Registration details

Dear friends, for those, interested: This summer the Global Network for Human Rights and Environment is offering a free online course in critical perspectives on human rights and the environment.

You can see more information here.

Dear friends, for those, interested: This summer the Global Network for Human Rights and Environment is offering a free online course in critical perspectives on human rights and the environment. You can see more information here:

Critical perspectives in Human Rights and the Environment: The 2021 Summer/Winter School
Credits: Oscar Andres Moreno Ramos / https://www.flickr.com/photos/iamosan
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.