By Annalisa Savaresi On Friday 8 October, the UN Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 48/13, recognising for the first time that having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right and calling on UN Member States to cooperate to implement this right. On the same day, the Council adopted Resolution 48/14, establishing a…
On 2 July 2020, the GNHRE hosted the second of its webinar series, “Human Rights Strategies in Climate Change Litigation Across the Globe”. The second webinar focused on human rights and climate change litigation in South Asia. You can watch the recording of the webinar here: Human Rights Strategies in Climate Change Litigation – South…
Please join us for a webinar on Monday 10th February 11am EST on ‘Outcomes of COP25 – Implications for the Climate Vulnerable.’ This is the first in the GNHRE series of webinars for 2020. It will provide an update on negotiation outcomes of the last Conference of Parties (COP25) on critical issues such as loss…
On the 13th of April 2018 the Regional African Law and Human Security Programme (RALHUS), at UWC, in conjunction with the South African Research Chair in International Law, at UJ, will host the Fourth Annual Rule of Law and Sustainable Development Seminar, in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The topic of the seminar is The International Climate…
