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[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...

[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...

[Arunava (Avi) Banerjee is a research assistant at the University of Tartu and an Erasmus Mundus scholar in the International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development (ILGSPD) programme] In February 2025, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR or Court) handed down a unanimous judgement in the case of Centre for Human Rights and Others v. Tanzania (hereinafter...