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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Water Reuse Governance Through the Lens of Environmental Justice: A Systematic Review
By Klaudia Szabelka[1] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20412064 Abstract: Water reuse is increasingly promoted as a response to global water scarcity and as a key component of sustainability and climate adaptation strategies. Yet, the extent to which water reuse practices advance environmental justice (EJ) remains insufficiently understood. Existing governance frameworks tend to prioritise technical standards, risk management and…
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Corporate Environmental Responsibility under the OECD Guidelines: Integrating Human Rights and Environmental Impacts into Unified HRDD Frameworks
By Otgontuya Davaanyam[1] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20411969 Abstract: This paper examines how corporate environmental responsibility is interpreted under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, with particular emphasis on the integration of human rights and environmental due diligence into a unified corporate accountability framework. While recent regulatory developments, including the OECD Guidelines (2023 update) and emerging mandatory due…
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A Tale of Two Courts: The Right to a Healthy Environment, Climate Change, and Human Rights
By Ecab Amor Vázquez and Theresa Amor-Jürgenssen[1] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20411374 Abstract: We are at the dawn of a new age for climate and environmental justice. In the face systemic and intergenerational threats to humanity, a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a necessary prerequisite for the comprehensive and effective protection of all human rights. In this context,…
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North–South Divergence on the Right to a Healthy Environment and State responsibility for climate change: A Critical Analysis of State Written Statements to the ICJ on Climate Obligations
By Simon Waswa Published in Environmental Rights Review 3(2006) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20411056 Abstract: The North–South divide has been a persistent feature of international law since the era of decolonization, but it permeated international environmental law beginning with the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. This landmark event highlighted ideological tensions between the Global North and South…
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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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