The Environmental Rights Review
The Environmental Rights Review (ERR) is a brand new open-access, online journal hosted by the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment.
The ERR provides opportunities for scholars and practitioners to write and engage with cutting-edge research on the urgent topic of environmental rights, where interdisciplinary approaches address practical applications, and where ideas can be presented discursively with opportunities for responses and evolution. The ERR is a forum for engaging, changing, critical discussion of environmental rights seen broadly, encompassing a wide array interconnecting issues and questions.
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Are breaches of the Right to a Healthy Environment capable of triggering the Responsibility to Protect in International Law? Exploring the potential of mental health protection as a catalyst
Human rights law emerged in the 19th century in a Westphalian international community characterized by sovereign States. This new area of law revolutionized the legal order. It asserted the importance of the human being, regardless of nationality, as a bearer of specific rights defined by the international order. This emerging philosophy gave rise to a…
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Issue 2 Editorial – Environmental Rights and Animal Rights: Entanglements
By Iyan Offor DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14026191
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Opinion: Individuals vs. Species: A Critique of Environmental Law’s Focus on Biodiversity
By Rimona Afana DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14025883
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Opinion: Save Yourselves: Self-Interest as a Stepping Stone Towards Ending Animal Abuse Industries
By Daniel Clark DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14025878
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Opinion: Rethinking Animal Welfare in Tunisian Animal Husbandry Law in the Context of Environmental Rights
By Rachid Bouajila DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14025858
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Zooinclusivity: A New Approach to Help the Transition towards a More-Than-Human World (and Law)
By Émilie Dardenne DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14025850
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Beyond the Green Horizon: Broadening the Right to a Healthy Environment to Include Animal Welfare Rights Amid the Climate Crisis
By Tracey Kanhanga DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14025769
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Blog Post: Climate Change Litigation before the European Court of Human Rights: A New Dawn
By Annalisa Savaresi, Linnéa Nordlander and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh Originally published on the GNHRE blog On 9 April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) made history by becoming the first international court to grant a complaint filed by climate activists. In Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland the court determined that the respondent state had violated…
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Blog post: The Tortured Politics of Nonhuman Personhood: AI, Animals, Embryos, and Nature
By Joshua C. Gellers Recent developments in the United States – a bill banning legal personhood for nonhumans in Utah and a court decision recognizing frozen embryos as persons in Alabama – reveal the fractured implementation of nonhuman personhood. Scholars have a duty to rectify inconsistencies and clarify concepts to realize the potential environmental, political,…
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Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment at the Council of Europe: Why Does it Matter?
By Corina Heri, Linnéa Nordlanderand Annalisa Savaresi Between 2021 and 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council and the General Assembly passed resolutions explicitly acknowledging the ‘right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment’. These recognitions align with developments in the regional human rights frameworks that already enshrined this right. In the wake of these…
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Blog Post: Whose views, science, or laws matter when deciding to kill wolves in Switzerland?
By Kimberley Graham The majority of Swiss citizens voted against weakening legal protections for wolves. Yet, the Swiss government has amended hunting laws to allow the killing of up to 70% of wolves. In 2020, the majority of Swiss citizens voted against weakening national protections for wolves. Despite this result, the Swiss Parliament amended the hunting and protection…
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