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Contributed by Tracy-Lynn Field (Wits University, South Africa) “I was going to throw this out, but perhaps you might be interested in it?” It was late 2005, somewhere in Johannesburg’s leafy, northern suburbs. Grant and his wife were treating my fiancé and I to a Sunday brunch. Their two young sons buzzed around us as…

Contributed by Annalisa Savaresi In recent years, litigants around the world have increasingly tried to push the boundaries of the law, by filing test cases before national, regional and international judicial and quasi-judicial bodies to prompt state and corporate actors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or to redress harm associated with the impacts of climate…

Contributed by Maria Antonia Tigre On April 21, 2020, the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) and the Ecological Law and Governance Association (ELGA) hosted a joint webinar on Law at the Intersection of Human Rights and the Environment. The webinar was the second in a year-long series held…

The GNHRE is excited to sponsor a series of webinars on topics relating to human rights and the environment. Watch the most recent webinar —  “Law At The Intersection of Human Rights and The Environment – 21 April 2020” – here. This webinar, co-hosted with the Ecological Law and Governance Association (ELGA), featured David Boyd, John Knox, Sumudu Atapattu and Dina Lupin Townsend,…

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…