Angela Hefti is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program. She holds an LLM from Yale Law School and a PhD in Law on femicide as a human rights violation from the University of Lucerne in Switzerland. Her research interests include climate litigation in human rights courts, femicide, human rights and environmental law.
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The European Court of Human Rights’ Gendered Climate Docket: KlimaSeniorinnen and Duarte Agostinho
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) just announced that the judgments in all three climate cases before the Grand Chamber will be issued on 9 April: Verein KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland, Carême v France, and Duarte Agostinho v ...
What’s next in Climate Litigation before the European Court of Human Rights? Duarte Agostinho and Others v Portugal and 32 other States
On 29 March 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) heard its first two climate cases (Verein Klima Seniorinnen and Others v Switzerland and Carême v France). Meanwhile, another much awaited case, Duarte Agostinho et al. v ...
López Soto v Venezuela: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ answer to violence against women
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ (IACtHR) feminist answer to torture and sexual enslavement in its September 2018 López Soto v Venezuela judgment is unprecedented. López Soto is the first femicide case before the Court, in ...
