Category: Climate Litigation
Landmark Court Decision on Right to a Healthy Environment: La Oroya v Peru
By David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment. “Environmental degradation can cause irreparable damage to human beings, which is why a healthy environment is a fundamental right for the existence of humanity.” – Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 2024 The Inter-American Court of Human Rights handed down a landmark decision on Friday, March…
La contribución del Acuerdo de Escazú a la justicia ambiental en América Latina: Una exploración empírica a través de la litigación climática
This piece is part of GNHRE’s series dedicated to climate litigation in Latin America. Our second piece is by Gastón Medici-Colombo – he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Barcelona and Associate Researcher at the Tarragona Centre for Environmental Law Studies (CEDAT). The original English version of this post was published on the Green Diplomacy blog…
Gender in Climate Litigation in Latin America: Epistemic Justice Through a Feminist Lens
This piece is part of GNHRE’s series dedicated to climate litigation in Latin America. We will begin with this blog by Natalia Urzola Gutiérrez, an SJD student at Pace University and GNHRE’s COO. In recent years, Latin America has positioned itself as a fertile hub in emerging strategic climate litigation. Latin America’s climate litigation has…
Announcements: 10 November 2023
If you would like to have something included in next week’s announcements, please email gnhrewebsite@gmail.com and include ‘Announcements’ in the email title. Calls for Abstracts, Papers, and Submissions: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK (abstracts)UCC is hosting an international conference entitled ‘Child/youth-friendly climate justice: progress and opportunities.’ Papers are invited across disciplines on a broad variety of themes,…
GNHRE Climate Litigation in the Global South Project – A Year in Review
by Melanie Murcott, Maria Antonia Tigre and Simal Efsane Erdogan As we are reaching the end of the year, we would like to extend thanks to those involved in our Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) Climate Litigation in the Global South Project (the Project) and offer a wrap-up of 2022. We…
