Climate cases turn on not only law and science but also judicial temperament: how judges perceive harm, risk, and responsibility over time.
In Russia, a durable form of aggressive militaristic culture has developed through the intertwining of state expansionist ideology with Messianic Orthodox Christianity, the latter of which is ...
Children are disproportionately affected by climate harms—they need to be at the center of local efforts to build resilience.
Los niños se ven afectados de manera desproporcionada por los daños climáticos, por lo que deben ser el centro de los esfuerzos locales para desarrollar la resiliencia.
A recent judgement provides victims and courts more latitude to address emotional and psychological abuse.
The UK government has proposed a series of measures that would weaken legal protections for the right to privacy. Rights groups and industry experts must continue to push back. End-to-end encryption ...
For a human rights movement dedicated to exposing abuses, positive communication does not come naturally. But to make the case for human rights, we cannot rely on fear of a return to the dark past, we ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. As national governments retreat from human ...
Now is the time for Mexico to address the anti-Black racism, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination that impact Black migrants in the country. In September 2019, African migrants who were ...
The notion of three generations of human rights has endured for 40 years. But it has no solid historical or analytic basis, and it obscures rather than clarifies the relationship between rights. The ...
Structural power imbalances in the UN system have prevented it from halting Israel’s ongoing war crimes against Gazans. Individual states and civil society must step in to prevent further aggressions ...
Who speaks for nature’s rights? The question needs careful consideration, or we risk in protecting nature to further disenfranchise the already marginalized. Many years ago, in Wild Law, Cormac ...