The GNHRE is excited to sponsor a series of webinars on topics relating to human rights and the environment. Watch the most recent webinar — “Law At The Intersection of Human Rights and The Environment – 21 April 2020” – here. This webinar, co-hosted with the Ecological Law and Governance Association (ELGA), featured David Boyd, John Knox, Sumudu Atapattu and Dina Lupin Townsend,…
Please join us for a webinar on Law at the Intersection of Human Rights and the Environment on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 11:00 – 12:30 EDT. This webinar is co-hosted with the Ecological Law and Governance Association and is the second in the GNHRE series of webinars for 2020. Registration in advance for this meeting…
Contributed by: Dina Lupin Townsend There is almost no part of our lives, and almost no part of the world, that has not been radically altered by the arrival and spread of the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19. At this point, the impacts of COVID-19 are impossible to measure but it is clear that understanding this pandemic,…
Contributor: Dina Lupin Townsend Last night the Austrian government announced new radical measures in response to the rising number of cases of COVID-19. All schools and universities had already been shut, the borders are closing and in the next couple of days, all but essential services will be shut down. In addition, the government is…
GNHRE is excited to sponsor a series of webinars on topics relating to human rights and the environment. The first, on “The Outcomes of COP25 – Implications for the Climate Vulnerable” was moderated by Lisa Benjamin, GNHRE Regional Director for the Caribbean and Assistant Professor at Lewis & Clark Law School. Bryce Rudyk, MJ Mace. and Linda Siegele, provide…
