Category: Community
Lhaka Honhat Association vs. Argentina: the human right to environment in the Inter-American Court
Contributed by Maria Antonia Tigre In its 2020 decision in Indigenous Communities Members of the Lhaka Honhat Association vs. Argentina, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held that Argentina violated an autonomous right to a healthy environment, to indigenous community property, cultural identity, food, and water.[1]For the first time in a contentious case, the Court…
WHAT TO READ: COVID-19, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Contributed by: Dina Lupin Townsend There is almost no part of our lives, and almost no part of the world, that has not been radically altered by the arrival and spread of the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19. At this point, the impacts of COVID-19 are impossible to measure but it is clear that understanding this pandemic,…
UPDATE: The Right to a Safe and Healthy Environment in Nigeria amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
Contributed by Ayodele Babalola UPDATE A few days after publication of the blog post below, in which I extensively discussed the need for waste management to be classified as an essential service in Nigeria, the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 classified waste management as an essential service in the fourth page of the Guidelines…
Thinking about climate change in a time of COVID-19
Contributor: Dina Lupin Townsend Last night the Austrian government announced new radical measures in response to the rising number of cases of COVID-19. All schools and universities had already been shut, the borders are closing and in the next couple of days, all but essential services will be shut down. In addition, the government is…
Urgenda and Dutch Dikastophobia: Is this the End of Public Interest Litigation for The Environment, and the end of Article 3:305a Dutch Civil Code?
Contributer: Otto Spijkers Introduction In recent years, the domestic courts of the Netherlands have produced a series of judgments, all relating to general issues of global concern, which have been praised by international lawyers from all over the world. In the Mothers of Srebrenica case, the Netherlands was held responsible for the failure of a…
