Category: Community
Announcements: 27 October 2023
Dear GNHRE Community – we will be posting weekly announcements on Fridays with calls for papers, proposals, and other GNHRE connected opportunities. Below, please see our first weekly announcements post. Calls for Abstracts, Papers, and Submissions: ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS REVIEW (paper)Call for papers for the second issue of the Environmental Rights Review. We are looking for…
Forests in courts: The new wave of litigation concerning the LULUCF sector in Europe
by Justine Bendel, Marie Curie Fellow, University of Copenhagen With the latest amendment of the EU LULUCF Regulation in April 2023, which consolidates EU Member States’ obligation to achieve a binding target for greenhouse gas (GHG) removals by 2030, litigation is bound to increase over time. This post aims to contextualise the recent wave of…
The Australian Referendum: a First Nations Voice to Parliament
by Paul J Govind and Dina Lupin On October 14 2023, Australians will vote in a referendum to decide whether the Commonwealth (national) Constitution should be amended to create a First Nations Voice to Parliament. For 65, 000 years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been custodians of the land. Their wisdom and practices…
Launch of the online version of the Strasbourg Principles of International Environmental Human Rights Law
The GNHRE is happy to announce the launch of the online version of the Strasbourg Principles of International Environmental Human Rights Law, now including authoritative comments by world experts in environmental human rights law! “The Strasbourg Principles represent a brilliant constellation of legal principles that could, and should, be used to guide our efforts towards a…
Calling All University Students: Contribute to a UN report on business and the human right to a healthy environment
By Stepan Wood* The Centre for Law & the Environment, the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, Dr. David Boyd, are partnering to offer university students around the world an opportunity to contribute information and ideas to an upcoming report by…
