In its March session, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on human rights and the environment, and has decided to appoint an Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment. (19th Session, A/HRC/19/L.8/Rev.1, 20 March 2012). The resolution can be accessed via the link below:
Leigh Day and Co, Solicitors, Announce a Salutory Lesson to Multinationals Operating in Developing Countries Under the headline ‘Peruvian Torture Claimants Compensated by UK Mining Company’, Leigh Day and Co announced the good news that legal proceedings by 33 Peruvians against UK-based Monterrico Metals PLC have been settled by compensation payments, without admitting liability. Speaking for…
A group of 120 academic experts in trade and investment law, EU law, international law and human rights, constitutional law, private law, political economy and other fields has spoken out against planned provisions on investment protection and investor-state dispute settlement in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. The scholars, from leading universities in Europe and…
A powerful new documentary series on climate change science, Years of Living Dangerously, is now available online. Episode 1 is free to view at this link. Please watch, and pass on.
The GNHRE is absolutely delighted and honoured to announce that Bianca Jagger, Founder and Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador and Member of the Executive Director’s Leadership Council of Amnesty International, USA, has agreed to be a Patron of the GNHRE. Bianca is an outstanding, long-time and prominent international human rights,…
On 26th November 2014, Bianca Jagger delivered the GNHRE, HRC, EHRA report on Human Rights and Fracking in the UK to 10 Downing Street. Before that, on 30th October, the report was launched to the press and an audience at the School of Advanced Studies, London. The film of the launch is now available…
Searching for Critical Environmental Law: Theories, Methods, Critiques CALL FOR PAPERS WORK SHOP, MAY 11, 2018 in Oxford CO-ORGANIZED BY ANDREAS KOTSAKIS , OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY & VITO DELUCIA, UIT ARCTIC UNIVERSITY OF NORWAY The field of critical environmental law has yet to develop any consistent self-awareness as a set of problematisations, methods and theories…
