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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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Call for Submissions: Special Issue on Animal Rights
Open for submission of abstracts until 28 December 2023 Guest Editor Dr Iyan Offor, Senior Lecturer, Birmingham City University. Email: iyan.offor@bcu.ac.uk Theme The second issue of the Environmental Rights Review will focus on the place of animal rights within the landscape of scholarship on environmental rights. Animals have been awarded legal personhood and/or legal rights in various…
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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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