Category: Blog
Announcements: 11 April 2025
If you would like to have something included in the next announcements, please email gnhrewebsite@gmail.com and include ‘Announcements’ in the email title. We are especially interested in submissions outside of Europe and North America. Call for Abstracts, Papers, and Submissions: Essential Concepts of Human Rights and the Environment (essential concepts/book entries)Professor Sumudu Atapattu, together with…
Announcements: 28 March 2025
If you would like to have something included in the next announcements, please email gnhrewebsite@gmail.com and include ‘Announcements’ in the email title. We are especially interested in submissions outside of Europe and North America. Call for Abstracts, Papers, and Submissions: Climate Law – Climate Change and Environmental Impact Assessment (abstracts)The journal Climate Law, published by…
Announcements: 15 March 2025
If you would like to have something included in the next announcements, please email gnhrewebsite@gmail.com and include ‘Announcements’ in the email title. We are especially interested in submissions outside of Europe and North America. Call for Abstracts, Papers, and Submissions: SDGS+10: A GLOBAL LEGAL STOCKTAKE OF ACHIEVEMENTS, OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES (abstracts)The first annual Critical Perspectives on…
Saving the Green Deal: A Climate Justice and Human Rights Imperative
by Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Annalisa Savaresi, and Corina Heri Introduction The European Green Deal — the EU’s flagship strategy to reach climate neutrality by 2050 and halt environmental degradation—launched a significant wave of EU environmental reforms under the von der Leyen I Commission. It set goals including climate neutrality and zero pollution, alongside more stringent enforcement…
The Supreme Court of Kenya Advances Jurisprudence on Access to Effective Remedies for Victims of Business-Related Environmental Human Rights Violations
by Rosemary Mwanza, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University Background On December 6th, the Supreme Court of Kenya rendered a landmark judgment in the Owino Uhuru litigation, a protracted legal battle addressing severe environmental pollution and public health crises in the Owino Uhuru settlement, a low-income settlement in the Mikindani area of Changamwe, Mombasa. Over the…
