Category: Environmental Justice
Environmental Harm, Disability, and the Importance of Procedural Environmental Rights
by Katherine Lofts & Chloe Rourke, McGill University This post is part of the Lessons from the Aarhus Convention and Escazú Agreement for Procedural Environmental Rights in Canada blog symposium. Although environmental harms disproportionately impact persons with disabilities, they have often been excluded from environmental governance processes, reinforcing existing inequities and leading to inaccessible policies and…
Gender in Climate Litigation in Latin America: Epistemic Justice Through a Feminist Lens
This piece is part of GNHRE’s series dedicated to climate litigation in Latin America. We will begin with this blog by Natalia Urzola Gutiérrez, an SJD student at Pace University and GNHRE’s COO. In recent years, Latin America has positioned itself as a fertile hub in emerging strategic climate litigation. Latin America’s climate litigation has…
Announcements: 10 November 2023
If you would like to have something included in next week’s announcements, please email gnhrewebsite@gmail.com and include ‘Announcements’ in the email title. Calls for Abstracts, Papers, and Submissions: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK (abstracts)UCC is hosting an international conference entitled ‘Child/youth-friendly climate justice: progress and opportunities.’ Papers are invited across disciplines on a broad variety of themes,…
Announcements: 3 November 2023
If you would like to have something included in next week’s announcements, please email gnhrewebsite@gmail.com and include ‘Announcements’ in the email title. Calls for Abstracts, Papers, and Submissions: AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS (submissions)African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights through its Working Group on Extractive Industries, Environment and Human Rights in Africa…
Update on the work of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment: relevance for states, businesses, and local environmental justice
By Sara L Seck, Associate Professor, and Meg Williams, JD candidate, Schulich School of Law and Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada. This is a re-posting of a Blog originally posted on September 5, 2018, on the Dalhousie Environmental Law News blog In this, my second post on the Dalhousie Environmental…
