Category: News
New GNHRE/JHRE Book Series ‘Interrogations’
GNHRE is delighted to announce that Edward Elgar Publishing and the GNHRE will be working on a new GNHRE/JHRE book series, ‘Interrogations’. This timely and provocative series will consist of relatively short (70,000 – 100,000 word) monographs on themes related to the field of human rights and the environment – delivering a set of critical,…
GNHRE scholar wins prestigious IUCN Academy prize
GNHRE scholar wins prestigious Junior Scholarship Prize from the IUCN Academy Professor Louis Kotze, a key member of the GNHRE network and an Assistant Editor on the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment was honoured with the prestigious Junior Scholarship Prize at the recent IUCN Academy Annual Conference. Louis is Professor of Law at…
Salutory Lesson Given to Multinationals by Leigh Day and Co, Solicitors
Leigh Day and Co, Solicitors, Announce a Salutory Lesson to Multinationals Operating in Developing Countries Under the headline ‘Peruvian Torture Claimants Compensated by UK Mining Company’, Leigh Day and Co announced the good news that legal proceedings by 33 Peruvians against UK-based Monterrico Metals PLC have been settled by compensation payments, without admitting liability. Speaking for…
GNHRE member, Barrister Polly Higgins’s ‘ecocide’ concept explored in ‘mock’ ecocide trial at the UK Supreme Court
Polly Higgins, famous Barrister and tireless campaigner for nature’s rights, has proposed that ecocide (the environmental equivalent of genocide) should be designated as the 5th International Crime against Peace. The Hamilton Group recently organised a mock trial in the UK Supreme Court, the outcome of which was a great endorsement of her concept and its…