The Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) proclaims climate change a human rights issue and releases a Draft Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change for Paris COP21 The GNHRE has issued a call-to-action for governments around the world in a Draft Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change (The Declaration) ahead of the…
The first publication in the GNHRE series with Edward Elgar Publishing, Critical Reflections on Human Rights and the Environment is due out soon. The series begins with Critical Reflections on Ownership written by Mary Warnock. In this thought provoking work, Mary Warnock explores what it is to own things, and the differences in our attitude to what we…
A Personal Report from Femke Wijdekop: Dutch citizens win climate case against the State: 24 June 2015 Together with 886 citizens, Dutch NGO Urgenda brought a climate liability case against the Dutch state. I joined this case as one of the co-plaintiffs. Our argument was that the Dutch state neglects its duty of care towards…
On Wednesday 26th November 2014, the report on fracking and human rights was delivered to the door of No 10 Downing Street by three GNHRE staff and Bianca Jagger. The report was co-authored by the GNHRE, The Environment and Human Rights Advisory, The Human Rights Consortium and commissioned by the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation,…
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…
