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Human rights Tag

02 Oct

[Laura Baron-Mendoza is a legal consultant to the Office of the Prosecutor and is part of the core team responsible for drafting the upcoming policy paper on environmental crimes under the Rome Statute. She is also an international law consultant and PhD candidate at McGill University] The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ recent Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency and Human Rights (AO-32/25)...

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01 Oct

[Lucas Carlos Lima is professor of international law at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and coordinator of the Brazilian Researchgroup on international courts and tribunals] The Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights (OC-32/25), rendered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR or Court) on 29 May 2025, offers a contribution to clarifying the relationship between international environmental...

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01 Oct

[María Paula Marroquín works at the Center for Studies and Dissemination of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from San Francisco de Quito University and an MA in Social Justice and Education from University College London.] In July 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHtR) issued the Advisory Opinion AO-32/25 on Climate Emergency and Human...

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30 Sep

[Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho is an MPhil candidate at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. This post was written while the author was a research associate at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore.] In this post, I claim that Advisory Opinion 32/25 (AO-32/25 or Opinion) of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Court) reshapes the way...

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30 Sep

[Erick Guapizaca Jiménez is an S.J.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Law School, a lecturer at the Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, and an Assistant Editor with Opinio Juris] Once again, the Inter-American Court stands at the edge of history with the Advisory Opinion 32/25 (AO-32/25). This time, the Court addresses a monster of our own making, climate change. Responding to...

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01 Sep

[Christine Evans is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the law faculty of Lund University and a human rights practitioner/investigator who has worked for the UN. Nieves Molina is an international lawyer and former senior UN officer. She is writing in her own capacity.] This post argues that the current political situation requires urgent and critical reconsideration of the role that sanctions can...

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18 Aug

[Timothy Fish Hodgson is a senior legal adviser for ESC Rights at the International Commission of Jurists (Africa). Valentin Büchi is a legal intern with the International Commission of Jurists (Africa).] On 23 April 2025, the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa (SCA) handed down a judgment in which it found that an eviction order against waste reclaimers had to fully consider...

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11 Aug

[Matin Amiri holds a Masters in international law from Allameh Tabataba'i University of Tehran] I am writing this post to provide a comprehensive discussion of the newly published Guiding Principles on Sanctions, Business and Human Rights, hereinafter referred to as the Guiding Principles, authored by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures and Human Rights, Professor Alena Douhan. These...

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30 Jul

[Saniamu Ngeywa has a masters of laws (LL.M.) in international human rights law from the University of Groningen, Netherlands] No Laughing Matter Retrogressive times and events have taken Kenya back to an all-too-familiar phase, rendering citizens, funny guys, dissidents, and rights defenders shivering. Social media enthusiasts banter that political positions should have an undisputed requirement that the applicant must be able to...

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29 Jul

[Julie Fraser is an international lawyer from Australia and an academic with The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights at Utrecht University.  Dr. Annette Mbogoh is currently a Board member of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority and law lecturer at University of Nairobi. She is a Kenyan social justice practitioner and scholar with over 18 years working experience.] Around the world there is...

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28 Jul

[Thairi Moya Sánchez (PhD) is a full-time professor of public international law at Complutense University of Madrid. Simón Gómez-Guaimara is an adjunct professor of public international law at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas and works as a human rights and international justice consultant.] Since 2007, Nicaragua has descended into a spiral of repression under Daniel Ortega’s rule. Popular discontent culminated in...

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28 Jul

[Sude Kınık is a senior law student at Galatasaray University] Introduction The ECtHR’s landmark judgment in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, (“Klimaseniorinnen”) marks a significant moment in the judicialization of environmental protection through human rights frameworks. A key feature of this judgment is how the Court addressed the “drop in the ocean” argument—a common state defense in climate litigation aiming...

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