Below, please find our fortnightly call for submissions and a collated list of events, opportunities, and recent publications. If you would like to have something included in our next announcements, please email gnhrewebsite@gmail.com and include ‘Announcements’ in the email title. We are particularly interested in submissions from outside Europe and North America.
Call for Abstracts, Papers, and Submissions:
From the Right to Self-Determination to the Right to Peace: Human and Peoples’ Rights in the Collapsing Multilateral Order (abstracts)
Within the Conference’s broad conceptual and empirical framework, taking place on 10-11 November 2025, the Human Rights Centre “Antonio Papisca” and the UNESCO Chair “Human Rights, Democracy and Peace” of the of the University of Padova have launched, in tight cooperation with the Human Rights Consortium (University of London), the School of Global Studies (University of Gothenburg), the Centre for Applied Human Rights (University of York), the Institute of International Studies (University of Wroclaw), the UNESCO Centre (University of Graz) and the Global Campus of Human Rights, a call for papers open to human rights scholars, researchers, Ph.D. students and to human rights operators and professionals with research assignments. To participate in the call for papers, please apply by September 20, 2025. See more here.
Public Humanities – The Rights of Nature (articles)
Public Humanities is a new international open-access, cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of humanities scholarship and public life. The journal invites submissions for the upcoming issue The Rights of Nature, which will be Guest Edited by Ramiro Avila Santamaría and Manuela Picq. This themed issue engages with the emerging global movement for the rights of nature and considerations of nature as a living being, taking local experiences into consideration for global solutions. Deadline: December 1, 2025. See more here.
Calls for Input:
Call for written submissions on the draft guidelines on addressing multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination against women and girls with disabilities
Purpose: to further guide states parties and other duty bearers to address the implementation gaps and to collect a repository of good practices in addressing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination against women and girls with disabilities.
Deadline: September 15, 2025. See more here.
Opportunities:
World Wide Fund for Nature, Ocean Policy Officer (Brussels, Belgium)
WWF is looking for a full time Ocean Policy Officer to join their ocean team. The ideal candidate should have experience in EU legislative campaigns; knowledge of environmental and climate policy and a strong commitment to supporting WWF’s mission. Application deadline: August 15, 2025. The Ocean Policy Officer supports the policy efforts of the EPO ocean team and our conservation advocacy towards EU decision-making institutions. The Ocean Policy Officer supports the head of unit, policy and communications officers in their political strategy development, establishing and strengthening political relationships and planning, and conducting advocacy actions. See more here.
UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders
Human rights defenders are people who contribute to making the world a better and fairer place by promoting and protecting human rights. They speak truth to power and challenge governments that fail to respect and protect their citizens, companies that degrade and destroy the environment, and institutions that perpetuate privilege and patriarchy. The UN has an expert appointed specifically for human rights defenders. Their role is essential: they promote the work of those who defend human rights and they protect defenders at risk. The International Service for Human Rights and partners are campaigning so the new person appointed is independent, impartial, competent and expert and comes from a background that represents the diversity of our world. Application deadline: August 28, 2025. See more here.
University of Strathclyde, Research Fellow (Glasgow, Scotland)
The Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities (SISC) welcomes applications for the position of Research Associate/Fellow*, to join the UKRI funded Integrated Systems Approaches for Accelerating a Just Transition (JUST-Systems) project. JUST-Systems is led by the University of Aberdeen and brings together six leading Universities along with community organisations, businesses, local authorities and Governments across the UK to understand how systems approaches can unlock sustainable Net Zero solutions at scale, break down the barriers to action and empower communities to take ownership of solutions that support their development. Application deadline: August 31, 2025. See more here.
Events:
The advisory opinion on the obligations of states in respect of climate change by the International Court of Justice (online)
Join King’s College London Law on July 25, 2025 for a timely conversation on the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on climate change, to be delivered on 23 July 2025. This event, co-organised by the Centre for Climate Law and Governance and the Centre for International Governance and Dispute Resolution, brings together King’s College London experts to reflect on the Opinion’s implications across key areas of international law. Register here.
Systemic Integration of Climate Change in International Law (online and in-person)
The Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, and Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy, University of Durham, supported by the Institute of International Legal Studies, University of the Philippines College of Law, Centre for Environmental Law and Climate Justice, Universitas Indonesia Faculty of Law, and the Universiti Malaya Climate Change Network are convening a two-day conference on August 28-29, 2025 on the theme of ‘Systemic Integration of Climate Change in International Law’ to bring together scholars, policymakers, and legal experts to discuss recent developments in national and international governance on climate change and identify ways in which systemic integration and coherence can be achieved. Register here.
New Publications/Releases:
Article: Bringing Child Climate Migrants Out of the Shadows: The Power of Mutually Reinforcing Human Rights Narratives in International Law, Carla Arbelaez; McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law. Read here.
Book: Blue Crimes and International Criminal Law, Regina M. Paulose (ed.), Vernon Press. Access here.
Blog: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South Contribution to Climate Governance, Juan Auz; EJIL: Talk! Read here.
Blog: Jus Cogens and the Climate Crisis, Markus Gehring; Verfassungsblog. Read here.
Climate Cases: Compendium of Key Climate Change Jurisprudence, Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development. Read here.