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Environmental Law

06 Nov

[Dr. Priya Kumari is currently affiliated with VIT-AP School of Law, VIT-AP, Amaravati, India.] The interlink between human rights and climate justice has been going through a phase of transformation. In 2024, the Indian Supreme Court delivered the judgement in the case of M. K. Ranjitsinh v. Union of India (hereinafter, Ranjitsinh). It is hailed as a groundbreaking judicial pronouncement because...

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12 Oct

[Miraj Hosen is a Research Assistant at the Bangladesh Society of International Law.] On 6 July 2026, Bangladesh deposited instruments of accession to three International Maritime Organization liability treaties. The instruments were the 1992 Protocol to the Civil Liability Convention, the 2001 Bunkers Convention, and the 2007 Nairobi Wreck Removal Convention. The latest IMO status record lists those deposits, while the...

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25 Sep

[Dr Wambua Kituku is the executive director of Kituo Cha Sheria (KITUO), Kenya’s oldest legal empowerment civil society organization (CSO). KITUO is a member of the Global Strategic Litigation Council. He holds a PhD in environmental law from the University of Nairobi and is a licensed attorney.] Introduction The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms that global warming...

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25 Sep

[Luwam Dirar is an Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Faculty Research and Development at Western New England University School of Law. Ian Kysel is a Clinical Professor of Law and co-director of the Migration and Human Rights Program at Cornell Law School, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, a...

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24 Sep

[Dr Lena Riemer is an Assistant Professor of Law at Central European University working on migration related topics. Andrea Maria Pelliconi is a Lecturer in Human Rights Law & Global Justice at the University of Southampton, a convenor of the ICON-S Interest Group on Climate Change and Migration, and Knowledge Specialist (Law and Human Rights) with the Beyond Climate Collaborative (BCC). Luca...

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24 Sep

[Cleo Hansen-Lohrey is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Tasmania whose research focuses on African regional refugee law and climate-related displacement.  Tamara Wood is a Senior Lecturer in Law at La Trobe University and Visiting Fellow at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney.] Climate Displacement and the Request for an Advisory Opinion In May 2025, the African Court...

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23 Sep

[Francesca Spry is an associate at Bailey Glasser International, and an Australian-qualified solicitor.] Introduction  Climate change is increasingly driving displacement worldwide. This includes in Africa, where millions of people are displaced every year due to impacts of climate change, such as drought, desertification and flooding.  This year the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) is considering a landmark request for an...

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23 Sep

[Jacquline Wambui Wamai is a labour rights lawyer and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She is currently the Regional Coordinator for Sub‑Saharan Africa at the International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) Network, where she leads legal and policy initiatives supporting workers’ organisations and lawyers across the region. The ILAW Network is a party to both submissions discussed in...

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22 Sep

[Priyanka Naidoo is a South African human rights lawyer and an African Lawyers Alliance Fellow. She holds a BSocSci in Politics and Law, LLB and LLM from the University of Cape Town. She writes in her personal capacity.] Against a backdrop of escalating climate harm, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Court) has been asked to clarify the...

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22 Sep

[Beatrice Njeri is a human rights lawyer, an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Regional Litigator for Africa at the Global Strategic Litigation Council. Bella Mosselmans is the Director of the Global Strategic Litigation Council and a human rights lawyer. She is co-initiator of the Climate Mobility Case Database, a former Kennedy Memorial Trust Scholar at Harvard Law School...

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21 Sep

[Dzimbabwe Chimbga is an international human rights and climate justice lawyer. He is currently the Team Leader at the African Climate Platform and the lead drafter of the Request for an advisory opinion on climate change, currently pending before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.] A Historic Petition On 2 May 2025, the African Climate Platform (ACP), a Pan-African coalition...

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21 Sep

[Beatrice Njeri is a human rights lawyer, an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Regional Litigator for Africa at the Global Strategic Litigation Council. Maria Jose Alarcon is an Assistant Editor for Opinio Juris. She writes in her personal capacity. The views expressed in this post are her own and do not represent those of the Climate Litigation Network (CLN)...

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